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30 days in prison or wear massive sign in public for 80 hours [View all]
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Better than sitting in a prison cell? (Picture: WKBN)
A judge ordered a man to wear an enormous sandwich board reading ‘I AM A THIEF I STOLE FROM WALMART’.
Greg Davenport, of Liberty Township, Ohio, pleaded no contest to a theft charge after attempting to steal a 52-inch television from a Wal-Mart in December.
The judge gave him a choice: spend 30 days in prison or wear a large sign outside the supermarket for eight hours a day over ten days of his choosing.
Davenport, 44, said wearing a sign is better than sitting a jail cell, and he isn’t embarrassed anyway.
‘I stole, I got punished. That’s it,’ he told FOX News.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/26/judge-orders-man-to-wear-massive-sign-reading-i-am-a-thief-5776496/#ixzz448ozwm1e
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/26/judge-orders-man-to-wear-massive-sign-reading-i-am-a-thief-5776496/#ixzz448oSnWdW
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