Saggy pants laws----WRONG!

[VileZambonie]

This explains it all. Just an honest mistake

[Lt.Del]

it has absolutely nothing to do with race.  I have seen blacks wear their pants down at their knees as well as hispanics and whites.  It doesn't matter what color the skin is. It's more an age thing than anything else.  I don't see too many 40 year olds doing this.    thugness is thugness.

What if one wears his pants at his ankles and his briefs are showing like the noon day sun?  That is indecent exposure and cops will address that.  Just the same, if someone is wearing only underwear walking down Main Street with nothing else on.  Why, because the public doesn't want to see a thug and his underwear. No different than having pants at his knees and displaying undergarments. It's illegal.

Swimming wear while at a pool or beach is completely different because it is expected you won't wear jeans while swimming. Kids aren't offended by the site..the family decides to go there.  I don't want my family seeing one's pants hanging down and showing their underwear while shopping at the mall or flying on an airplane.  Why even wear pants if they don't cover anything?  Heck, just go to work in your fruit of the looms.
  

[bake74]

This explains it all. Just an honest mistake

     Midget jokes!!!  AHHHHH  the good old days. 

[Irish_Alley]

This explains it all. Just an honest mistake

     Midget jokes!!!  AHHHHH  the good old days. 

"little people"
lol

[Dr_Snooz]

I'm all in favor of the bans. Bad fads should be policed. Guys shouldn't be allowed to wear pants ten sizes too big. Overweight girls shouldn't be allowed to wear low-rise jeans ten sizes too small. No one should ever have been allowed to sell, much less buy, a leisure suit. Think of all the pictures they will have to be embarrassed about in the future. Like all those folks with pictures of themselves in bell-bottoms and afros and loud, paisley-print, polyester shirts. What a pity. This is an area where the government really could, and should, make a difference. They could have fashion police who fine people for wrinkled shirts and unpolished shoes. Ah, utopia!

[Blazin]

[VileZambonie]

Here's my take on it. Let people offend people. I really don't care if some idiot wants to wear his pants like a fool. I don't care if a fat girl wants to wear a shirt that shows her lard hanging over her pants either. I don't care if people want to tatoo their face or put fruit loops in their ears. I don't care if you have a mohawk, long hair, short hair, green hair or no hair! You don't have to interact with them. It's a free country - if you don't like them- avoid them. It's none of the Governments friggin business how people dress. I don't care for saggy ass pants either but outside of school or work it's their right to look stupid.

[topp]

I don't care if a fat girl wants to wear a shirt that shows her lard hanging over her pants either.

I care about this- I don't like to puke in public when I see some 400lb woman in spandex bend over in front of me....

[Irish_Alley]

im with you vile. but you have to be firm fair and consistent. how can you let Vitorias secret show their adds but when some guy shows his its not ok? i  hate spandex because they dont fit me right lol

[Lt.Del]

it's easy to say 'avoid' them.  But, if you are out minding your own business then a punk is in front of you in line---well, let's just say you can't remain a hermit in your house your entire life.  And, there are degrees to laws.  Why would the gov't be able to act if someone is completely nude in public, versus just slightly covered.  It is a gov't issue while in public.  Drinking in public is against the law, like it or not.  Even a watered down drink is illegal in public. In my mind, these exhibitionists should all be labeled a sex crime and must register as a sex offender showing off their not-so-desiress aspects of themselves.
Don't get me wrong.  I am a libertarian at heart, there are way too many laws on the books.  The gov't has overtepped their constitutional requirements a million fold over the last three decades, but, this is a democracy too.  Put it on the ballots.  I don't want to have to look at one's dirty frekin boxers hanging out their waistband.  I wouldn't disrespect anyone around me.  Just like someone with a loud stereo.  I don't want to blow my eardrums because some knucklehead wants to turn his 3,000 watt 30" woofers way up and rattle my truck glass.  Yes, the gov't should act in these case because it impacts the innocent bystander who is minding his own business.
Now, I'd rather do away with most laws on the books if I am able to take matter in my own hands....I'd act upon that in a split second and handle it myself, but, I can't. I'd end up in jail myself and have civil cases lodged against me.  So, I must rely on laws to handle these cases.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/fashion/30baggy.html


 

[three8six]

@Vile x2

[VileZambonie]

So I take it some of you have never gone to the beach. If you can't look at someone and get a laugh out of it then YOU are the one with the problem. I've been in education for 10 years now and I'll tell you I see every trend their is. In school they have to pull their pants up and tuck their shirts in but the minute they walk out that door if they want to paint themselves green and dress like Tarzan that's their business. The day you allow the governement to tell you how to dress is the day you are giving up your freedom.

[Stewart G Griffin]

im with you vile. but you have to be firm fair and consistent. how can you let Vitorias secret show their adds but when some guy shows his its not ok? i  hate spandex because they dont fit me right lol

Exactamundo!

[topp]

So I take it some of you have never gone to the beach. If you can't look at someone and get a laugh out of it then YOU are the one with the problem. I've been in education for 10 years now and I'll tell you I see every trend their is. In school they have to pull their pants up and tuck their shirts in but the minute they walk out that door if they want to paint themselves green and dress like Tarzan that's their business. The day you allow the governement to tell you how to dress is the day you are giving up your freedom.

We have given up our freedom long ago.....

Laws are created to allow us all a level of comfortability in Public places in Civilization.
There are laws preventing lewd behavior (who defines that?), Proper attire (no shirt, no shoes, no service), and many others.

There are laws to keep us all "civilized" when out in public.....And being forced to see some morons ass in public is another one I agree with.

As for Victorias Secrets ads, the models aren't walking down the street, dude'ing this and that around little kids, talking about women like they are female dogs, and most definitely not braggin about the weed they smoke, or how many times they were in jail...... The ads are in MAGAZINES which I CHOOSE to look at or CHOOSE not to look at...

[VileZambonie]

So you don't see ads anywhere other than in a magazine? What about bilboards and windows, malls, tv, website adverts.

I agree we have given up many of our freedoms by allowing law makers (and whoever the heck these people are is beyond me but it certainly is not WE the people) to dictate many laws that promote no protection or purpose other than telling people how to live their lives. A law to tell someone how to dress who isn't nude isn't protecting anyone.