[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。7 k$ ?# M$ p3 w- v9 m& P, \9 k( d
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U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store
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2 C6 N; ?( @! Y% {  F+ V4 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."
. y" m5 V+ _3 n) a+ l# ?Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays.
* Q% \; b! D# O: z* ]"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."
! d. }9 s1 a4 v8 D0 ]3 N( J5 kOne 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.6 [9 H: c( n8 k+ M4 y9 N( m8 ?
Fithian maintained her innocence. She said her conviction was based on a misunderstanding: She said she was taking a $7 item to the service desk because it would not scan.9 i! h+ s/ R$ N6 Z5 l- q

- n) x- @* X" ?Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."
9 r  f4 @6 `: lHawkins 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.