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。 " {, s, Z2 @# t + Z: t- D5 a7 b& T5 t
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U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store+ u8 ?% C4 q0 S9 A/ |. ~2 H* X3 M! k
% } J- A' X, P) _* I9 L1 x3 y6 x 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." 9 }- ~2 v" \. |& b6 \6 Y! G9 hAttalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays. - J& E' M/ n O c0 I/ T 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." / K y$ B- Z! _: w7 OOne 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.: f; v, \1 w& N" F: y/ N ^
Fithian maintained her innocence. She said her conviction was based on a misunderstanding: She said she was taking a $7 item to the service desk because it would not scan. ! q' [" n: \" r. I& w- ~ 6 N$ C! s) J8 K d% B- C0 [
Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."1 t1 L/ d, p& n
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.