A Parish in Louisiana has passed the pant-sagging law...

Freebase Dali · 03-31-2014, 04:45 PM

I can't believe this crap actually went through.
Louisiana town bans sagging pants - NY Daily News

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...A Louisiana town wants to prohibit people from sagging, or wearing pants below the waist and exposing their underwear.

The ban would set a high price on low pants, slapping violators with a series of fines: $50 for the first offense, $100 for the second and $100 and 16 hours of public service for each subsequent offence.

The Terrebonne Parish Town Council voted 8 -1 to pass the ordinance, which the parish's president is expected to sign into law, reported WWL-TV.

First of all, never mind the obvious constitutional implications here, but the idea of government of any level regulating individuals' public image is absurd even without the 14th amendment. Even the comments from the bill's supporters IN THE NAACP, NO LESS, are ridiculous:

"We (are) here tonight to try and put a stop to this thing and let these boys and girls look decent"
What is that, an attempt at bringing minorities into a better social light by limiting their civil liberties? The irony here is mind-numbing.

This is clearly not about some issue of "public indecency", otherwise we'd be fining women whose thong straps are visible, hiding underwear shelves at stores and banning pictures of male models wearing nothing but underwear on the Fruit of the Loomb packages. Not to mention that sort of thing on adverts in public places. Oh, and if you bend over and some of your underwear are showing, watch out. Plumbers, you're doomed if engaging in public plumbing.
This is obviously a crack-down (pun not intended) on what certain people deem distasteful, and it's obviously not an opinion held by everyone to the extent that it needs to be legislated.

All I can say is "wow".

I feel it relevant to say that I was born and lived in that very parish in Louisiana for a lot of my life. Glad I'm gone from it. There's no telling what's next.