Taiwanese Burglars To Be Put On Display

Taipei will parade convicted burglars through its streets in glass-paneled vans in an attempt to curb the capital’s rising crime rate, the mayor said Monday.

“A few countries have burglars’ hands chopped off,” Chen Shuibian said at a year-end news conference. “We can’t do that, but we still can take some measures to alarm the burglars.”

The vans will carry signs reading “The Burglar Is Here” and containing the names of the burglar and his or her parents, Chen said.

In opinion polls, Taipei citizens list burglary as their biggest fear, and almost all said they bar their doors and windows.