Here's a video of what happened yesterday in the Peruvian town of Huancayo.
Two thieves were caught red-handed while trying to steal jackets from a stall in Huancayo's Central Market. They (siblings Javier and Rosario Rojas) then went through the following:
- stripped to their underwear
- hands tied behind their backs
- a paper with "I'm a Thief" taped to their chests
- paraded around the central market so that everybody could see their faces
- jeered and shouted at
- at the end of the parade, buckets of cold water poured over them
- finally the two were handed in to the local police station
Note that the two were not physically injured throughout their ordeal. I'll leave it to you to decide whether all the above was a good or bad thing but I will say that the Inca laws of Ama Sua, Ama Quella, Ama Llulla (look 'em up for yourselves if you care enough) are alive and well and living in the Central Highland region of Peru.