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。 ( e, G& P( O6 |2 Y 5 P, c$ L5 ^% R/ R
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U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store # ~5 Q- k3 ^8 ~6 f) B - }& P+ f+ {5 w" l% q 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." 4 c# M4 k! I& S7 j- D* V7 |; `: b; eAttalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays.; y$ n. Q: a/ 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." 1 j. z, a- z9 s2 NOne 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.# E5 w% T, R! t+ F/ d; t+ 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. e; K, w% c( ~( T + o; L, h9 ?/ k1 v5 }
Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel." * h- h1 [4 @, lHawkins 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.
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