46岁的丽莎·金·费席安站在阿拉巴马州阿塔拉市的沃尔玛卖场门口,身上挂着「我是三只手,我偷了沃尔玛的东西」的牌子。她被抓到偷窃一件7美元的商品,法官让她选择坐60天牢,还是在沃尔玛门口挂牌罚站四小时。 j* \* v* h; Y- @4 Y( ^* N 5 U" {9 F! v6 I ; Y/ k& J# N; q# H7 ?7 BU.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store + |1 ]6 Y1 x$ Q" L' Q0 D2 F K 5 I2 g- t0 @, l, @/ m: S; T* iATTALLA, Alabama: Shoppers entering a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Alabama got a reminder not to try anything funny: Two shoplifters stood outside with signs reading "I am a thief, I stole from Wal-Mart."/ ? x- f, v* d F# o. x
Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays." b T) P0 N: ]9 h" B
"The only comments we've heard so far have been positive," said store manager Neil Hawkins. "Most of them thought it was a good thing."7 O1 O4 x+ x, T0 V7 c" J
One of the shoplifters, Lisa King Fithian, 46, wore the sign from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to avoid a 60-day jail sentence. Another convicted shoplifter was at the store from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.. Y: b6 P" j% m6 ]; G; M
Fithian maintained her innocence. She said her conviction was based on a misunderstanding: She said she was taking a $7 item to the service desk because it would not scan.$ p; H3 Q+ ?" N3 i
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Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."% E# G3 Z; [% W6 y/ K
Hawkins noted how embarrassing it would be for the public to see someone who got caught shoplifting. "Maybe they'll think twice about doing it," he said.