Low Pants = Jail Time
Wearing saggy pants in the city of Flint (USA) is now officially classified as Criminal Behaviour: it can send you to jail for 93 days to a year and/or $500 in fines.
Police Chief David Dicks, who took over the Flint (yes, that same Flint from Moores’ Roger and Me) police department last month on an interim basis, announced that his officers would start arresting people wearing saggy pants that expose skivvies, boxer shorts or bare bottoms.
Complete lowdown (ha!) here (via Tobias)
I think people who pull their jeans up all the way to their shoulders should also be sent to jail - perhaps even a bit longer.
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its about time. pull your pants up punks
What else can you expect from a Dick?
Every Generation since the early 1900’s (at least) has had to have styles in clothing, hair, and music guaranteed to outrage their parents. You have to wonder what these idiot’s children will do? That is, if they are allowed to live long enough to breed.
Way to go, Flint! Sagging is for gangsters..
I’m all for not wearing your pants down past your ass, but putting it into law is just fucking stupid. Don’t they have anything better to do?
I hope they also punish all cases of “plumbers crack”, the scourge that is “plumbers crack” must be stopped.
@JAB_au Good point, but I doubt they had plumbers in mind when coming up with this law..
Gee….this wouldn’t be aimed at any particular ethnic group perchance ? Hey, I think it looks dumb as hell, and is done only because my generation(60’s) used up all the outrageous stuff to piss off people. Now, I hope the spirit of this law will also cover the female attire, such as how much cleavage gets a warning, indecent exposure, or disorderly conduct. Lets crack down on camel toes while were at it, painted on pants, NO BRA”S !!!….this looks like a simple sexual discrimination case to me, and will promptly ne laughed off the books. Damn though, it scares me that these people are not only still around, but enjoying a new and bigger heyday…..
Oh the belt lobby is at it again…another city government bends over for big business.
what about women? can they wear thong bikinis at the beach? what about cleavage being exposed? why dont they arrest women whos skirt is above their fingertips when their arms ar to their sides?
because this isnt highschool, let people wear what they want.
what the fuck happen to our fuckin freedom, are we all gonna wear fuckin uniforms now? wtf? this worlds a piece of shit now. the day u cant bag ur fuckin pants is the day we realize god doesnt exist and bush is a fuck up n racism fucked this country up.. wait that must be fuckin today
I cannot think of a bigger load of horseshit.
So you think sagging is stupid. Okay. You’re allowed your own opinion. But to force the opinion on others is moronic. Why should any law require me to dress a certain way?
This law is an obvious play in the war on urban culture. The baggy pants aren’t dangerous, it’s what they represent that’s so dangerous to the balance of power. Of course, they will say that the baggy pants are capable of concealing weapons, but so are backpacks, and I hope they don’t criminalize wearing them any time soon!
Ok, so lets consider this for just one second, having your pants below your buttocks is nothing more than a fashion statement, provided the boxers cover all the naughty bits then there is no reason for this to be an arrestable offense, shorts the size of boxers worn without pants would be acceptable attire, and as such all this law is punishing is people layering their clothes, while I think that the whole sagged pants style is stupid far be it from me to tell others what to do, I’m not arguing against the plumbers crack law, rather I am arguing against the other ones the government has decided which articles of clothing are now acceptable for everyday viewing? what happened to the good old days when the only rules were no genitals, as far as I’m concerned a man in a speedo exposes more skin than the second man illustrated in the picture. this is nothing more than clothing fascism.
It’s a sad, sad day when one can receive jail time for refusing to conform to a standard of dress. Nothing obscene is being shown by wearing loose pants (although I abhor it.) This reminds me of the days when a woman couldn’t show her ankles or even reminiscent of the religious laws in Iran and various Islamic countries. I dare say this town of Flint is moving backwards in time (insert Flintstones joke.)
I can understand if plain out baggy pants are banned, as outrageous as it is, but for indecent exposure, that is simply bullshit, the only reasonable reason I can imagine for banning baggies pants is that its extremely easy to conceal firearms in loose pants, but it would still be a stupid reason to ban them
Great idea. Another law that won’t get enforced. Like the no talking on the phone while driving, Lights on when it’s raining, littering,no turn on red, no passing on the right. etc. etc.
And people at school said I was crazy for thinking the dress code was just the governments way of prepping us for the police state to come.
What about chicks with their undies peeking out? Or guys with hairy pits who wear sleeveless shirts?
This isn’t highschool anymore, and I can’t believe they don’t have worse problems to focus on in Flint, MI of all places.
hey do you that wearing pants low is a yankee prison sign that your a “rent boy ” fools are easy led
This has nothing to do with racism, and you who think it does, is a racism for your assumption. Yes its a violation for freedom. But you shouldnt be bitching because you cant sag your pants, there are much more important things in this world, cry more.
Are they going to create a mandate that declares all low-rise jeans illegal? Will they also censor music videos?
Hey, it’s in everyone’s best interest. Remember, crack kills!
i hate to be mr. obvious, but
THIS LAW IS AIMED AT NEGROES. surprise surprise.
If they’re going to make young men cover their butt, when are they going to make 60 yr old overweight hairy men cover their butt cracks? If I must see a male butt crack, I’d much rather see a young tight butt than one covered in butt zits and hair.
I have to say that the sagging pants just look plain ridiculous. If the ones wearing them could only look back to the years way earlier in their lives when they first wore them, perhaps things would change on their own. Because those early years were when they were in diapers and needed changing. So… if that is what they want to look like, don’t be surprised if this is one lady who is giggling behind their backs!