Ban on Sagging Pants

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From Georgia city makes $4K from saggy-pants ban - GlobalPost

The city of Albany, Georgia has collected almost $4,000 in fines since an ordinance banning saggy pants went into effect less than nine months ago, The Albany Herald reports.

The ordinance bans pants or skirts that sit more than three inches below the top of the hips, exposing skin or underwear. According to the Herald, City Attorney Nathan Davis recently said that the Municipal Court "advises that 187 citations have been issued and fines collected of $3,916.49,” since the ordinance went into effect on November 23.
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There's more about it in the article, but I think this is ridiculously stupid unless your bare ass is hanging out. I think that having your pants hanging off of your ass looks dumb as hell no matter what you're wearing underneath, but I think that a law that fines you for wearing your pants a certain way is dumb as fucking shit.
 


Bit shitty. A year or so ago (before I could find a cloth belt that worked properly) my jeans would often sag. It wasn't a fashion statement, it was just there were no belts that had a hole at the right place.
 
I don't so much mind county laws. It is federal and state that bugger me.

The idea of a free society, to me, is one where counties and cities can compete to attract people/business. That includes banning saggy pants.

I'm all for legalization. But not in the term that "all states/counties" MUST legalize, but rather let each state/county decide. That way, if pot legalization is really good, people will flock to the places where it is good and then other states/cities/counties can follow suit.
 
Yuckystuff said:
lulz at sagging pants becoming a fashion statement. I read somewhere that it started as a signal in prison that you take it in the ass, and some undercover gay rappers adopted it and now all the youth think it's cool. lol thugs lol
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I agree that it's really, really, really dumb.

My problem personally is that I can't condone laws that I think over reach in other areas and then think that this one is okay just because it's making something illegal that I think is stupid and doesn't affect me personally.

FWIW, I'm posting semi-random stuff like this, the food stamps post and the other one I can't remember right now because I'm just starting to really figure out where I stand on a lot of these issues.
 
One of our city council members proposed something similar here a year or so ago. It never went anywhere. While I think the sagging pants thing is dumb, I am glad we didn't go there with passing fashion police laws.

The thing most people don't think about is, just because today's law isn't something you're worried about, tomorrow's majority may decide they're coming for something you love. I'm not opposed to laws that make sense, but shit like this is just busy-bodies in government ignoring the real issues.

On a side note: the local council member here who proposed the law has been arrested for multiple DWI's, had her license suspended, went to MS and had a friend get her a fake MS DL, and was again arrested after being pulled over for erratic driving while returning from the Tunica casinos when it was discovered she was driving on suspended license, under the influence and in possession of a fake DL. Clearly, the laws do not apply to her...she has not spent more than 24 hours in jail, and all this happened over a year ago.
 
This is retarded, banning burqa is one thing, banning saggy pants?

WTF's going on with America yo.
 
No cleavage tax? That shit would keep on giving, chicks wouldn't suddenly stop trying to get approval from men, even if they had to pay for it.

Sluts will fix the economy.
 
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I'm all for it. Lack of presentation is just another stupid example of why America is going to shit.
 
This law would be struck down by SCOTUS in a second as anti-free speech.

Even the Roberts court would see that...
 
Yuckystuff said:
It's a stupid, unnecessary law, but it doesn't infringe speech so I doubt that. It's not against free speech to have laws against being naked in public, and they codified it as a similar decency law.
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Free Speech has long been interpreted by SCOTUS to include "freedom of expression", including dress.

If the law was framed as a decency law it fails. It is not illegal to walk around in your underwear as long as your parts are covered. There's no mention of that sort of thing in the law so there's no case to be made in court that it is a decency issue.

It would fail.

Fortunately, I don't care.
 
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