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。# u' a" n2 R# w0 m. X w4 s: I
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U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store/ u# q7 H2 `! }0 b
! C$ n' f) G/ d* C) q7 Y0 Y. [6 {/ ~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." / T6 M- e: j6 u& y7 x+ L9 HAttalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays.) G d k' o& o( @% E6 f6 t5 U% j
"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." @' W2 e( W- V% @5 \1 k/ t" T! TOne 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. ' Q& q# D% a `% f. c9 m- SFithian 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./ _, K( y! I' ~4 R- \6 J+ b
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Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel." * n( M3 A3 ^* c' N+ ]& 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.