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。, H* H! F* |4 W) M# s5 N
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U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store 2 R; b1 p3 p& j5 X# S ) P2 J4 w; e1 ?9 ], JATTALLA, 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 S& ~9 |" q$ |2 bAttalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays.% l6 u+ |& }9 {6 P1 {
"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 K4 V, X0 d3 i' u4 A# @
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. % J e0 u$ a8 R0 B& \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.! G6 r; W+ k* {% L# T# }
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Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."; ]* ]4 V- J6 ^+ Z
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.