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。 0 i8 [8 }( h* |2 C3 C# H$ A* } ; T- Q4 f# D @. Q5 ~2 n" z 2 h; I" Y1 D2 i7 f' gU.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store. p+ P+ a7 ~: B3 q8 t
; R5 X8 i" z" m 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.", Y6 S. J6 v! E. ^) c) {
Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays. ( E9 e9 R* ~7 f/ 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."4 G* z% ` x- m- m
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.9 w8 {0 p1 M) s9 V2 ^- m
Fithian maintained her innocence. She said her conviction was based on a misunderstanding: She said she was taking a $7 item to the service desk because it would not scan. ! ]4 H$ O3 m4 g7 n4 l ( [# N3 l' i0 F9 O! [6 F% _Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."6 L; h' ^% ?! h8 \$ v v
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.