The AP reports on a grocer who is taking a novel approach to collecting bad checks. He's posting the check writer's names on his marquee. A man who owed $200 came in just days after his name went up, to pay $100 on his debt. When grocer Vic Ricci was asked about the legality of his methods, he had this to say.

"People ask me if it's legal. I say I don't care," he said. "If you can't pay a $25 check, how can you pay a lawyer? If someone wants to take me to court, I'll go."

As someone who's worked in retail management in the past, I can attest to the fact that judges are usually on your side. Someone who writes a bad check and has ignored subsequent requests to pay the bad debt doesn't have much legal ground from which to stand. Besides, government officials never seemed too concerned about putting John's faces on TV. Why would they be the only ones allowed to use public humiliation as a tool?