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Shoplifters wear 'I am a thief' sign

SuzannePjamSuzannePjam Posts: 411
edited May 2007 in A Moving Train
I've heard of other creative punnishments as well. I particularly like the one where a woman got caught abandoning a cat, and the judge made her stay outside in the woods overnight so she could see how it felt.

Shoplifters wear 'I am a thief' sign

ATTALLA, ALA.
Shoppers entering the Wal-Mart Supercenter here got a reminder not to try anything funny: Two shoplifters stood outside with signs reading "I am a thief, I stole from Wal-Mart."
Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays.
"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."
One 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.
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.
Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."
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.
"Where there is sacrifice there is someone collecting the sacrificial offerings."-- Ayn Rand

"Some of my friends sit around every evening and they worry about the times ahead,
But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference and the promise of an early bed..."-- Elvis Costello
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  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    "curb your enthusiasm" had an episode about that, it was funny. check it out.
  • _Crazy_Mary__Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    haha, that's a great punishment! But it brings up the question: Who would steal from WalMart?
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    I Steal Forks From Restaurants
  • SuzannePjamSuzannePjam Posts: 411
    Once a friend of mine and I went to a comedy club in Philly with these two guys we were dating. The club had dinner beforehand, then the show was upstairs. My girlfriend had just moved into an apartment and needed salt and pepper shakers so she stole them off the table at the club and stuck them in her handbag. We were so excited that we got front row at the club until the comedian jumped off the stage and grabbed my girlfriends handbag. He obviously was looking for condoms and stuff that he could make jokes about. When he pulled out the salt and pepper shakers the whole place cracked up. :D
    "Where there is sacrifice there is someone collecting the sacrificial offerings."-- Ayn Rand

    "Some of my friends sit around every evening and they worry about the times ahead,
    But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference and the promise of an early bed..."-- Elvis Costello
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    Lamia Majora
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    It didn't work...the t-shirts got stolen...

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    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    SuzannePjam wrote:
    Once a friend of mine and I went to a comedy club in Philly with these two guys we were dating. The club had dinner beforehand, then the show was upstairs. My girlfriend had just moved into an apartment and needed salt and pepper shakers so she stole them off the table at the club and stuck them in her handbag. We were so excited that we got front row at the club until the comedian jumped off the stage and grabbed my girlfriends handbag. He obviously was looking for condoms and stuff that he could make jokes about. When he pulled out the salt and pepper shakers the whole place cracked up. :D
    :D I was in Eddie Rockets (a fast food diner chain over here... yummy food though :) ) one night a couple of years back with my friend and her boyfriend. In my drunken state, I thought the ketchup was the nicest I'd ever tasted. I went to the toilet before we were leaving, came back and the bottle was smashed with ketchup all over the floor and my friend was laughing uncontrollably.

    She had tried to steal the bottle for me by putting it under her arm under her coat... but her boyfriend gave her a hug and she forgot and it fell and smashed :D

    Another time two of my housemates were trying to steal a traffic cone for me (it was kind of an inside joke thing) for my birthday... only they were being watched by a superintendant... who dragged them into the station and gave them a slap on the wrist, lol.

    Why do people try to steal for me? They'll just end up in trouble! Lol.
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    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
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