Shamed Edmond Aviv had to sit at the roadside with a sign declaring “I am a bully” as an unusual punishment by a court.

The 62-year-old from Cleveland, Ohio, had racially abused and harassed neighbours and their disabled children in a 15 year dispute.

Judge Gayle Williams-Byers handed down the very public punishment, plus 15 days in jail and 100 hours community service after he admitted disorderly conduct for the fourth time.

But he isn't the first to be publicly named and shamed...

Stone cold Zober

The Scorned Wife
Elle Zober: The Scorned Wife

Elle Zober of Beaverton, Oregon, used her husband's affair as a novel way of trying to flog their family home.

She put up a huge for sale sign declaring that she had been forced to sell up after her husband left the family for a 22-year-old.

The 37-year-old mum and her sign became an overnight media sensation.

She said: “I just thought it would be a funny thing that people would share locally. I don't know if I would do it again, and if it doesn't sell the house I definitely wouldn't do it again.”

Wash your mouth out

Dylan, 12, holding aloft a sign saying: "I was suspended from school for cussing out my teacher"

In America it seems that even kids aren't immune from being humiliated in public.

Dylan, 12, was forced to stand on the street for three hours holding a sign explaining that he was suspended from school for swearing at his teacher.

The punishment was the brainchild of a friend of his mum's who explained: “He wasn't raised to speak that way.”

A teaspoon of trouble

It isn't just the Americans who are airing their dirty linen in public.

Robin Baker of Leicestershire displayed a huge sign on the front of the former marital home blasting his ex-wife Jeanette.

The sign said: "Woman you stripped this house bare. I proved you a liar in court. Your getting F*** all."

He says he designed the sign after he came home to find his wife of 22 years had stripped their house bare – even removing the curtains, curtain rails and plants from the garden.

He said at the time: “They hadn't even left me a teaspoon.”

No twerking

Twerking: Frances Hena forced 11-year-old daughter Jamie to stand on the street corner with a sign

Miley Cyrus has got a lot to answer for.

Californian mum Frances Hena forced 11-year-old daughter Jamie to stand on the street corner with a sign saying she disrespected her parents by twerking at a school dance.

The irate mum said: “I want her to realise that she is just a child and she can't do that.”

Why did the chicken stand on the road?

Different: Judge Mike Cicconetti

Judge Mike Cicconetti is famed for thinking outside the box when dealing with criminals in Painesville, Ohio.

He sentenced one man to stand in the street wearing a chicken costume after being convicted of soliciting a prostitute.

He was inspired by the Chicken Ranch Brothel in the movie “The Best Little Whore House in Texas”.

He ordered a woman to spend a night out in the cold as punishment for abandoning 33 kittens in the middle of winter.

He has said: “If it causes a little bit of embarrassment then so what. I found out that the traditional sentences, the jail time and a fine – those weren't working.”

Water way to do it

Social media makes public humiliation so much easier these days.

Just ask the mum who was fed up of her son's rude behaviour that she swiftly and expertly exacted her revenge by logging on to his page and telling the whole world that her son wet the bed until he was eight.

Meaty response    

Public: Chef Jim Knight takes to Twitter to slam his former bosses

And if you sack someone, it is probably best to make sure they haven't got access to your company twitter account.?

Chef Jim Knight let Twitter do the talking when he was fired from his job at The Plough in Oxfordshire.

In a series of tweets from the company account he wrote: “We would like to inform you that we have just fired our head chef. Unfortunately he wanted to have a weekend off this month and Christmas Day this year for family commitments so we thought we'd sack him. Yeah a week before Christmas! We don't care that he has a 7 ½ month old baby daughter. So anyway come on down and continue to pay a premium for Australian sirloins and New Zealand lamb and everything else that is bought from Asda. Happy Christmas Everyone!!!!!”

Knight's boss Steve Potts took issue with the claims that the pub bought and sold cheap meat, and stood by his decision to sack the chef, saying he had had several applicants for the post.

And Knight himself was offered another job on the back of his Twitter stunt.

Go big or go home

We all know that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

But you have to hand it Heather who took out a huge billboard advert to tell the world that her husband was a cheat.           

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