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。 $ q) N8 L" }: D/ Y9 _ 4 r8 L0 W, L1 c$ _' I2 d ! B( x0 n& U$ P6 |6 V4 ~
U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store7 _6 l4 g* P: F7 N) B# J0 B$ w! l3 E
7 Y! {" Q" s, @2 P$ w 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."2 X* [) I5 }: p
Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays. 0 i0 p. K3 o# J9 t"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." & O6 ]% o; }7 P, c! aOne 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.% C# x$ Y# {, M! U6 L
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. 7 k' b! ^' P, V5 N/ { 3 r! Z. o! _. K U( R6 r8 ^Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."/ \) q0 _/ D" ]; R+ b) W# ~
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.