voting unanimously to ban anyone on city property from wearing pants two inches below their natural waist.

Special exemption for certain city employees known to frequent donut shops...; )

I wonder how this is going to be enforced, as well. IC have a high, short waist, and unless I'm wearing "mom jeans" my pants are likely going to be more than two inches below my 'natural' waist. Not to mention, the girls and women who wear low cut jeans. Are they going to be fined as well, or just the awful boys?

The article is unclear about if underwear have to be showing, or if the low pants is enough. It hasn't been fashionable for women to show their underwear (thongs) for at least a few years now.

It is interesting to me also that, despite one statement that this law would be gender neutral, the lady pushing for this only spoke about boys in every other statement she made.

There was possibly a better way of seeing that this practice stopped: use the sagging pants as probable cause to search for concealed weapons.

Of course someone will scream "racism!"
This would be aptly dealt with by pointing out that the sheriff does not care whose pants are low – they get frisked.

Of course someone will scream "racism!"

Hmmm...

Dress like a thug,
Act like a thug,
Get treated like a thug.

Just don't whine about your embrace of thug life and all the benefits that come with it.

Yeah, this is clearly aimed at the droopy-shorts look that some guys wear. Although in a backhand way, it's doing them a favor: getting fined under this ordinance is better than getting convicted of indecent exposure, which lands you on the sex offender list.

Florida... recreation facilities...
So, bathing suits fit in to this, how?

If the low pants law is legit then while they're at it they should go ahead and make it illegal for a person with a BMI greater than 25 to wear stretch pants or tube tops.

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws.”
-Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged.

All the plumbers will be in jail.

I'm 8.5months pregnant right now, and most of the bottoms I wear are the under-belly kind. I wonder if they'd cite me.

Maybe the city council is really into the whole "normcore" look. Amoung a certain set of the young and beautiful, mom jeans and 90's scrunchies are cool again. But, like, only if it's ironic, and you just DGAF. At least, that's what the magazine told me.

I once saw a youth jaywalk in front of my car with his pants hanging so low he that he had to waddle like a penguin. Slowest and Funniest jaywalk ever.

Love that, Shtetl G. Funny name. PS From there, too.

Don't these idiots know how that trend started??

When a thug was incarcerated, he would "sag" his pants below his butt, to let any other inmate who was interested know that he was "available" for anal sex, in return for "protection". That these kids think it's so "cool" just proves what idiots they really are.

I say let 'em wear their pants like that. It'll be easier for the cops to catch 'em when they try to run.

I thought that was intriguing, Flynne, but Snopes says otherwise:

While sagging did gain its start in the U.S. prison system, it was not a clothes-wearing style authored by imprisoned homosexuals intent upon advertising their interest in casual flings. Sagging pants became the behind-the-bars thing thanks to ill-fitting prison-issue garb: some of those incarcerated were provided with clothing a few sizes too large. That oversizing, coupled with the lack of belts in the big house, led to a great number of jailbirds whose pants were falling off their arses. (Belts are not permitted in most correctional facilities because all too often the lifeless bodies of their inmate owners have been found hanging from them.)

Read more (it's a pretty funny article, really)at http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/sagging.asp#m8IkC0UAvLAdyErL.99

Thanks, gooseegg, that was enlightening!! I still think it's a horrible example of a fashion statement, though.

o.O

Oh I do too. It's pretty prevalent around here in certain parts of town, and I've seen one too many accidental bare bottom because of it. It's always good for a laugh, though.

I figure that if the idiots want to wear signs proclaiming themselves as such, I'm not going to stop them. It saves me some trouble.

I watched a guy on BART a few months back reach behind his knee to pull his wallet out of his back pocket.

> While sagging did gain its start in the
> U.S. prison system, it was not a clothes-
> wearing style authored by imprisoned
> homosexuals

The rumor I'd heard, which is HIGHLY unlikely, was that the newest, meekest inmates would be forced by the tough guys in the cell block to dress that way to demonstrate sexual submission, and that gangster wannabees couldn't read the code, so it turned into a rapper's fashion.

Again, it's almost certainly bullshit, but I like my rumor better than other rumors, or even than the truth...

There's no surer way to convince socially-needy, status-conscious young males to avoid a bad behavior --like showing ass crack-- than to tell them it makes them look like the feminized sex toy of some manly-man.

There's no surer way to convince socially-needy, status-conscious young males to avoid a bad behavior --like showing ass crack-- than to tell them it makes them look like the feminized sex toy of some manly-man.

I agree, the looks on their faces is priceless when you tell them that story and say you arent interested in having sex with them, but perhaps they should try the local gay bar

Honestly, if you want to stop young people from doing something, just have older people adopt it.

Sideways/backwards baseball caps would be a good start.

Now if we could only get Floridians to stop wearing their lime green Sans-a-Belt golf pants pulled up to their shirt collar ...

Honestly, if you want to stop young people from doing something, just have older people adopt it. ~ Posted by: Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at July 19, 2014 4:34 PM

I don't think anyone's ready for old guys wearing lime-green Sansabelt slacks below their asses.

Which begs the question, what will it look like in another 10-20 years when the saggy pants crowd becomes the oldster generation? "Get off my ... oops, my pants."