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。 3 Y8 B: h5 s3 y0 [ 9 \# w0 [" @! w 4 e2 F1 k+ F% ] r! YU.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store 2 {" J1 i& b" [; t; G& g4 c . ~' ^9 B3 ^9 P, s! bATTALLA, 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." 7 A; [ }& Z7 k, t; hAttalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays.1 G0 P* w1 ?# t5 S
"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."# |( L5 T2 x, j! G; R
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.- L9 y" n2 W% c( z$ L4 X) c
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.% m# i6 t8 y- I" Y
* H# k; P( I! v# K3 oOutside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel." " c, {( o. b7 v) DHawkins 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.