Selma bans pants sagging 3 inches below hips

[The Straight Story]

Selma bans pants sagging 3 inches below hips

Associated Press - December 16, 2010 6:04 AM ET

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - People who wear sagging pants in Selma could end up paying a fine and doing community service work.

The Selma City Council voted 5-2 to ban sagging pants that fall more than three inches below the hips. District Attorney Michael Jackson urged the council to approve the pants ordinance. He said it will make people feel freer to tell young people to pull up their pants.

Councilman Samuel Randolph said the new ordinance is close to racial profiling because it is geared toward minority teenagers.

The district attorney told the Selma Times-Journal that enforcement will require common sense, but someone showing underwear and skin is wearing their pants too low.

The ordinance provides fines of up to $100 for a juvenile and $200 for an adult.

http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13682757

[Vincardog]

1. How are the rent boys going to show they are open for business?

[slackmaster]

2. Are the existing cops going to enforce this, or will they hire a Faahion Police Brigade?

[piedmont]

3. Pants on the ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMwhl4IrPNc

[HopeHoops]

6. Yeah, I'd seen that before. "Lookin' like a fool with your pants on the ground."

[Lucky 13]

4. That is absolutely ridiculous and an infringement on individual rights.

Will this be applied to guys and girls evenly? Most girls under the age of 25 show a little skin above their pants. So are you going to fine them too or is this specifically directed at one special segment of the population?

Assholes.

[Chisox08]

32. Other than plumbers there is only one segment of the population

that sags their pants. I'll let you guess what segment that is.

[HopeHoops]

5. "Next on the agenda, we have the proposal to ban painting pigs green for St. Patrick's Day."

Don't these people have anything BETTER to do? Idiots who wear their pants like that are already a joke. I saw a guy with pants most of the way down his ass, but what REALLY made me laugh is that the legs were sewn together down to the knees. He looked like a freakish cartoon character. I would have LOVED to see him try to run in those!!!!

[tularetom]

7. Does that apply to the fat cops who have their pants below their bellies?

Or the plumbers who show their ass crack every time they bend over?

[Cant trust em]

8. Au revoir "anti-big government" and "nanny state" talking points. nt

[immoderate]

9. Those pants are their own punishment.

You have to laugh when you see kids struggling to move.

--imm

[The Straight Story]

10. My nephew wears his like that, and he is 24

The crotch of his pants is almost to his knees.

We don't need to ban them though, just ban stupid people :)

[beam me up scottie]

18. Was in the grocery couple years ago...

Young woman walks past with toddler in tow, skinny (I mean REALLY skinny, this guy didn't have enough of an ass to hold up a pair of pants even if they were the correct size) dude follows her with another young kid in the cart. Dude's pants were sagging so bad you could see all of his boxers and then some.
When they fell completely down around his ankles, he tripped and was forced to frantically clutch at the cart for support.
Dude then smacked his head on the cart while bending over to retrieve his trousers, and I heard the first kid holler "Wait, Mummy! Daddy's pants fell down again!"

Was laughing so hard bf came around the corner and thought I was having a stroke.

You're right, we don't need to do anything to these kids, their idea of "cool" is punishment enough.

:D

[immoderate]

28. Fashion must shock. It's only purpose is to attract attention.

--imm

[beam me up scottie]

29. And the fad will continue as long as we continue to act shocked.

This particular one has lasted much longer than I thought it would, not because it's uncomfortable (ever wear a thong?), but because it's so physically restrictive. Not to mention how aggravating it must be to have to constantly pull your pants up so that you can sit down, climb stairs, pick up the pace, etc.

[immoderate]

37. Well thongs are wide spread. Wait. That doesn't sound right.

I guess I don't worry enough about panty lines.

Why do people wear them that don't have to?

--imm

[beam me up scottie]

39. I really don't know, I hate the damned things.

Geez, I spend a lot of time and money acquiring comfortable underwear that doesn't give me a wedgie and doesn't look like grannie undies.

I won't wear push-up/padded bras either, not just because I don't need the extra "volume" but because it always seemed like false advertising.

It's difficult enough to be taken seriously when you work in a male dominated industry, sexing yourself up to go to work is really counterproductive. Did you know, for instance, that some men actually think that we can make our nipples erect on command?

[immoderate]

44. How about when a guy wearing a rug says, "Trust me."?

I know people who can wiggle their ears on command. It's not like that? :)

--imm

[beam me up scottie]

48. For someone who's been around I'm still gobsmacked by the things idiots say out loud.

I blame my parents. :)

[dulurkernomore]

40. thanks....

for making me almost lose my sip of white wine on the monitor!
:rofl:

[beam me up scottie]

45. You're very welcome!

Remembering it still makes me lol!

edit: speelling

[Liberal_in_LA]

42. lol. I've witnessed pants falling. hilarious

[beam me up scottie]

47. *Furtively looks around* Did anyone see that?

:rofl:

[KamaAina]

11. But what does Patty think about them?

[bigwillq]

31. ha ha

:rofl:

[jmm]

12. Congratulations to Selma for getting rid off all real crimes!

Surely if they're doing this then they have nothing better to do with their time ;)

[Matariki]

13. It's Backwards Day in Mortville

Anyone not wearing their clothes inside out and backwards will be executed.

[otohara]

14. I Was So Happy When My Son

started college - finally, the beginning of the end of cringing at the sight of his pants, barely hanging on his ass.

[gratuitous]

15. "It will make people freer to tell young people to pull up their pants"

Gotta give him a point for honesty. So, Selma must be a bastion of liberal do-gooders, right? Only those goddam libruls would think to enact such nanny state regulation of free expression, right? They better watch out, or Sarah Palin will be on their ass!

[Lucian]

16. This is ridiculous.

I can see how the trend is stupid, but fining people and making them do community service for it is stupid, especially since they're showing, um, nothing by doing it. There's no genitalia hanging out or ass crack, so why the ban?

[bigwillq]

17. That's awful.

It's subjective as to one thinks that's fashionable or not, but it's not a crime. There are more important things to worry about, imo.

[bullwinkle428]

19. Will there be a "pants patrol" responsible for taking measurements?

[PBS Poll-435]

20. The war on Crack continues.

Shame.

[the redcoat]

21. "keep the government out of my personal life...unless it doesn't affect me"

[Name removed]

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[saras]

23. Plumbers, or just the young?

My local hardware store sells Butt Crack Putty for this purpose. It seems to do the job just fine without dragging the law into it...

At any rate, there's a new style of pants at our university - the crotch is around the knee, but they have a high waist you hide under your shirt. They look saggy but they're really not...

[Posteritatis]

24. I'm glad to see the city of Selma has solved all their other problems. (nt)

[Liberal_in_LA]

41. hee!

[backscatter712]

25. Y'know, I ridicule and mock those who sag their pants, but I don't think it should be illegal.

Seeing someone's boxers is not cause to throw them in jail.

Granted, I think that people who have their pants' waistbands hitched below their butts look completely ridiculous, and I've been tempted to sneak up behind them and pants them (Only tempted... I haven't actually done it.)

[immoderate]

27. Ever thought that's why they wear them that way?

Yeah! That's right! They have a virtual "PANTS ME!" sign on them and you disappoint. How cruel.

--imm

[alphafemale]

33. At least the boxers actually fit which is a blessing.

I'm wondering if this isn't more directed at the boys wearing girl pants.

A guy wearing skin tight pants falling 3 inches below the waste sans undies is a sneeze away from something nobody wants to see in the Express Lane.

[Ezlivin]

26. Fashion Police in Selma?

Snap.

I guess next thing they'll do is kick down doors and drag screaming people off for an "Extreme Makeover."

Whatcha goin' to do when they come for you? Bad boy, bad boy!

[blueamy66]

30. GOOD.

I'm sick of looking at boys' asses and boxers.

[Imajika]

34. While this is utterly stupid...

..what the hell is it with the whole saggy pants thing? It looks utterly ridiculous and I fully expected the fad to have died out by now - yet it hasn't.

[Angry Dragon]

35. My understanding is it started in prison

[RegieRocker]

36. More B.S.

just write them up for indecent exposure.

[Warren DeMontague]

38. I want to ban tan dockers, loafers, short haircuts and permanent press dress shirts for men.

Everyone should have hippie hair, wear tie-dye, and preferably listen to the Grateful Dead, all the time.

MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA :hippie:

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

43. It is always interesting to see the Google ads certain posts generate,

Never disappoints,

[DemoTex]

46. One would think. Edmund Pettus Bridge. March 7, 1965. Selma-Montgomery march.

It, of course, IS racial profiling! GMAFB!