Residents in the southeastern Mexico state of Tabasco took matters into their own hands after they busted two men they accused of stealing.
The suspects were apprehend by a group of neighbors after they were spotted trying to steal a motorcycle in the municipality of Cunduacán on Tuesday.
Instead of calling the police, the group stripped the men naked and forced them to walk barefooted down a street in the Tierra y Libertad village.
One of the suspects was seen in a video carrying a sign wrapped around covering his chest and genitals and walking with a sign that read, 'This happened to me for stealing.'
The alleged perp approached a motorist who told him, 'This happened because you were stealing.'
A man who was busted along with an accomplice for attempting to steal a motorcycle was stripped naked and forced to walk through a neighborhood in the southeastern Mexico city of Cunduacán carrying a sign that read, 'This happened to me for stealing'
Two men allegledy busted for attempting to steal a motorcycle in Tabasco, Mexico were stripped naked and forced to walk down a road before they were turned over to police Tuesday
A second video showed the suspect and his naked accomplice walking together along the side of street.
Residents told El Heraldo de Tabasco newspaper that they stripped the suspects naked to as a warning to other criminals.
'We want this to serve as a lesson, so that they know that in Tierra y Libertad we will not tolerate more thefts,' a local said on condition of anonymity.
The suspects were eventually turned over to the Cunduacán Municipal Police, who placed them under arrest.
Authorities indicated they were also investigating the two men for their alleged participation in other thefts that had been previously reported.
Residents in Tierra y Libertad, a neighborhood in the southeastern Mexican city of Cunduacán said they forced the two men to walk naked because they wanted to teach a lesson to them and other criminals, indicating they 'will not tolerate more thefts'
In December, a criminal group in the Tabasco city of Paraíso applied the same form of punishment to a young man for allegedly stealing.
The gang bounded the man's hands and stripped him half naked, leaving just his top on.
They then wrapped a sign around his chest and back that read, 'This happened to me for stealing.'
The alleged perp was paraded down an avenue for nearly an hour before the police stepped in and took him away.
