[国际新闻] 「我是三只手，我偷了沃尔玛的东西」

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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。
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0 |6 d( `5 l" |U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store5 _# p& u8 E3 N/ X8 C# I

+ o( Z9 b. |9 i; W- \* |ATTALLA, 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."
0 u/ a/ `" F# E& ]- Y人在德国 社区Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays.
5 a$ @# `: ^5 m  ~"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."
& K, I. X: F5 x1 `4 p! J% FOne 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.
2 u4 `4 o) I) s& F2 V5 cFithian 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.
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, \0 I' w6 ]" n8 U* @Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel.") f- D& j% l/ {) O7 U
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.