Cities cracking down on saggy pants

**min0 lee** · 09-17-2007, 09:43 AM

This may seem a bit drastic but when your behind a moron with his saggy pants showing his crack while riding an escalator I applaud this idea.

The kid smelled like ass to top it off.

Cities cracking down on saggy pants - Yahoo! News

By MATTHEW VERRINDER, Associated Press WriterSun Sep 16, 2:35 PM ET

It's a fashion that started in prison, and now the saggy pants craze has come full circle — low-slung street strutting in some cities may soon mean run-ins with the law, including a stint in jail.
Proposals to ban saggy pants are starting to ride up in several places. At the extreme end, wearing pants low enough to show boxers or bare buttocks in one small Louisiana town means six months in jail and a $500 fine. A crackdown also is being pushed in Atlanta. And in Trenton, getting caught with your pants down may soon result in not only a fine, but a city worker assessing where your life is headed.
"Are they employed? Do they have a high school diploma? It's a wonderful way to redirect at that point," said Trenton Councilwoman Annette Lartigue, who is drafting a law to outlaw saggy pants. "The message is clear: We don't want to see your backside."
The bare-your-britches fashion is believed to have started in prisons, where inmates aren't given belts with their baggy uniform pants to prevent hangings and beatings. By the late 80s, the trend had made it to gangster rap videos, then went on to skateboarders in the suburbs and high school hallways.
"For young people, it's a form of rebellion and identity," Adrian "Easy A.D." Harris, 43, a founding member of the Bronx's legendary rap group Cold Crush Brothers. "The young people think it's fashionable. They don't think it's negative."
But for those who want to stop them see it as an indecent, sloppy trend that is a bad influence on children.
"It has the potential to catch on with elementary school kids, and we want to stop it before it gets there," said C.T. Martin, an Atlanta councilman. "Teachers have raised questions about what a distraction it is."
In Atlanta, a law has been introduced to ban sagging and punishment could include small fines or community work — but no jail time, Martin said.
The penalty is stiffer in Delcambre, La., where in June the town council passed an ordinance that carries a fine of up to $500 or six months in jail for exposing underwear in public. Several other municipalities and parish governments in Louisiana have enacted similar laws in recent months.
At Trenton hip-hop clothing store Razor Sharp Clothing Shop 4 Ballers, shopper Mark Wise, 30, said his jeans sag for practical reasons.
"The reason I don't wear tight pants is because it's easier to get money out of my pocket this way," Wise said. "It's just more comfortable."
Shop owner Mack Murray said Trenton's proposed ordinance unfairly targets blacks.
"Are they going to go after construction workers and plumbers, because their pants sag, too?" Murray asked. "They're stereotyping us."
The American Civil Liberties Union agrees.
"In Atlanta, we see this as racial profiling," said Benetta Standly, statewide organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. "It's going to target African-American male youths. There's a fear with people associating the way you dress with crimes being committed."

**shiek49** · 09-17-2007, 11:53 AM

to each his own...but it my opinion wearing your pants low enough to where your ass hangs out is ridiculous. nothing is worse that sitting on the beach while some dumb ass walks by wearing boots and pants sagging down past his ass showing off his boxers.

**DOMS** · 09-17-2007, 11:55 AM

It's even more hilarious when you consider what wearing your pants that low actually means.

**Fetusaurus Rex** · 09-18-2007, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

This may seem a bit drastic but when your behind a moron with his saggy pants showing his crack while riding an escalator I applaud this idea.

The kid smelled like ass to top it off.

Was it not ass that you were smelling?

**Fetusaurus Rex** · 09-18-2007, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by DOMS

It's even more hilarious when you consider what wearing your pants that low actually means.

In prison it means that you are someone's bitch, am I right?

**min0 lee** · 09-18-2007, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by Fetusaurus Rex

Was it not ass that you were smelling?

It smelled like dirty ass.

**min0 lee** · 09-18-2007, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Fetusaurus Rex

In prison it means that you are someone's bitch, am I right?

Yes, let me guess.....you wear them like that?

**min0 lee** · 09-18-2007, 05:35 PM

Now why would boys/men hang out with each other showing thier asses and grabbing their dick?

**Fetusaurus Rex** · 09-18-2007, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Yes, let me guess.....you wear them like that?

Why would you guess that? Is it because I have heard what it means before?

You confirmed my answer and you must know that too, so I guess that you wear your pants below your ass?

**min0 lee** · 09-18-2007, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by Fetusaurus Rex

Why would you guess that? Is it because I have heard what it means before?

You confirmed my answer and you must know that too, so I guess that you wear your pants below your ass?

Your age.
Your into skateboarding.
Your a fetus.

Hell no, I hate that look with a passion.

**Vieope** · 09-18-2007, 06:51 PM

Saggy tits is still legal.

**PreMier** · 09-18-2007, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by Vieope

Saggy tits is still legal.

NOT in Brasil!!!

**oaktownboy** · 09-18-2007, 07:42 PM

good luck enforcing those laws...

**Fetusaurus Rex** · 09-18-2007, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Your age.
Your into rollerblading.
Your a fetus.

Hell no, I hate that look with a passion.

hah well you assumed wrong, I am a Fetus yes and I have trouble getting clothes that fit, but I usually get some overalls and some onesies

**iMan323** · 09-18-2007, 08:16 PM

Bad legislature, very clearly targeted at a specific demographic. I hate that stupid look too, but this is as clear case of racial profiling as you can get.

**Fetusaurus Rex** · 09-18-2007, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

It smelled like dirty ass.

ewwwwww

**min0 lee** · 09-18-2007, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by iMan323

Bad legislature, very clearly targeted at a specific demographic. I hate that stupid look too, but this is as clear case of racial profiling as you can get.

I see a lot of white kids dressing like this now.

**bio-chem** · 09-18-2007, 09:19 PM

its not racial profiling. if a city writes a law that says your not allowed to walk around with your ass hanging out then its a decency thing. the issue will be how to enforce the law without using it as a way of profiling. do cops have to carry a tape measure and say its 3 inches below the top of the wasteband of your boxers

**DOMS** · 09-18-2007, 09:21 PM

I have a staple gun if they're looking for applicants to enforce the law.

**bio-chem** · 09-18-2007, 09:26 PM

Originally Posted by DOMS

I have a TASER if they're looking for applicants to enforce the law.

i dont think that will be needed just yet DOMS

**Fetusaurus Rex** · 09-18-2007, 09:31 PM

also how people wear huge shirts like XXXXL and they only weigh 150 pounds...

in a case like that though the shirt looks like a damn moo moo, and covers the pants that are also clearly sagging, but how would they look at that?

just saying there would not be proof of them sagging their pants if the shirt covers down to their knee caps...

Or would that not be an issue?

**DOMS** · 09-18-2007, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by bio-chem

i dont think that will be needed just yet DOMS

I'll let them call me "fascist".

**bio-chem** · 09-18-2007, 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by DOMS

I'll let them call me "fascist".

your in. and bring the taser

**BoneCrusher** · 09-18-2007, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by DOMS

I have a staple gun if they're looking for applicants to enforce the law.

I can tell you that a pellet gun fired at the exposed ass will also cause social change. Looked like it hurt too

**NeilPearson** · 09-19-2007, 02:34 AM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

I see a lot of white kids dressing like this now.

I agreed. I don't consider it racial profiling at all.

Loser, trash profiling yes... but not racial

**NeilPearson** · 09-19-2007, 02:38 AM

I remember watching one of the "Back to the Future" movies and in the future the kids wore their pants with the pockets pulled out. I thought, "yeah right like something that stupid could ever catch on."

I guess truth really is stranger than fiction

**maniclion** · 09-19-2007, 12:57 PM

What's worse, nuthuggers or sagged pants?

**danny81** · 09-19-2007, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

This may seem a bit drastic but when your behind a moron with his saggy pants showing his crack while riding an escalator I applaud this idea.

The kid smelled like ass to top it off.

Cities cracking down on saggy pants - Yahoo! News

that guy ihn the pic is false flaggin you wear a red bandaana out the right side.

BTW i sag my paants so i guess im gunna get in trouble lol but i my shirts are big enuff so that you cant realy tell if im sagging or not

**DOMS** · 09-19-2007, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by danny81

BTW i sag my paants so i guess im gunna get in trouble lol but i my shirts are big enuff so that you cant realy tell if im sagging or not

It's funny, I just checked out my staple gun, and it has "Danny" written on the side...

**Burner02** · 09-19-2007, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by DOMS

It's funny, I just checked out my staple gun, and it has "Danny" written on the side...

isn't that kinda like having a bullet w/ your name on it?

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