On 8/8/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
deterrent for petty crime. These include James McKenzie, who makes shoplifters stand outside Wal-Mart with signs that say "I am a thief put here by order of Judge McKenzie"; and Joe Brown, who graduated
It's a very old practice and predates the use of sandwichboards for commercial advertising. My reading is that there is a residual 'shame' to the practice of such advertising. The bearer of the two boards also carries an "unwritten" -- but all too legible -- label proclaiming, "I am a derelict." This is why I claim the sandwichman as the projected shadow of the ideology of success. -- Sandwichman
