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。6 H* s8 g+ r' ~; M
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3 z* j# v# `+ PU.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store 9 z+ Q* z8 n8 p- B2 D0 c+ ? * B w" J! X4 @$ A T: R 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."8 j) S& p' B' V
Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays.( r# l) D2 m w# v* b
"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." ! f# P9 X7 Q) W5 o3 F! 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. " Y/ S0 g# y/ x9 BFithian maintained her innocence. She said her conviction was based on a misunderstanding: She said she was taking a $7 item to the service desk because it would not scan. & ~' j& G( v- V1 v' a2 v" k 8 E% K$ }! N+ D) g( b% P
Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel." $ o. w# T% h- a K" d; A$ XHawkins 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.