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Saggy pants law... and my own question...?

I have personally always found saggy pants (pants that hang below the butt causing you to have to hold them up) to be extremely stupid looking and completely impractical.

Now I have just read on Yahoo News that they are trying to ban them in Louisiana.

Link - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070829/ap_on_re_us/od...

I found this to be funny although I'm against it because I do not believe the state should be able to tell you how to dress.

My opinion... They make no sense. Think about it.... Most of the people who wear saggy pants are

"hip-gangster wannabes" (to borrow from Tool's Maynard). Since gangster types like to think of themselves as gun touting, womanizing, unlawful thugs that are always at odds with the police I have to wonder why they would want their pants falling down. How do you run from the po-po with your pants falling down?!?

Update:

To answer Shelby P... I totally get being attracted to a little underwear showing. My girlfriend loves that also as do most women. This is not what I'm referring to however.

I'm speaking of the idiots who wear their pants below their entire @ss. I recently saw a guy who had his pants this way and he leterally had to stand there holding his pants with one hand in order to keep them up. He looked so stupid.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Did you know that saggy pants were a trend that started in jail. It was meant to let people know they were gay, this is true too.

    Any who, I dispise the saggy pants trend, I think it is one of the dumbest things ever. However, I disagree about it being a law. Freedom of expression does allow you to dress how you please. The only way they could pass this law, was as if it was a form of in decent exposure. But I've been to the mall and saw a girl with short shorts, an open demin jacket and a swimsuit bikini top on.

    So if the law applies to them it should apply to all people who are showing more then they should.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    For some strange reason Im attracted to a guy when i see their boxers poking out of their pants- but only at the waist. But I do agree that having their butts hanging out and their pants down to their knees is totalllly ridiculous.

    But I like your question- How do they run from the popos with their pants falling down. I've pondered that question many times myself.

  • 1 decade ago

    I agree with the state trying to ban the saggy pants issues because first, i would improve the environment around kids and second it would be a good role model for kid on how to dress for success.

  • 1 decade ago

    I had often wondered that my self. I always see them and i think that they look like two year olds with a big poopy diaper. When ever i see a kid with those pants on i say does the baby need his diaper changed. I dont know how they can be ganster when they look like they have a big pile of poo poo in their pants. I even think its hilarous when they sag and have dirty underware on. They have no idea how stupid they really look.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    laugh. my. butt. off.

    I agree with the saggy jeans law. The people who wear saggy jeans are so stupid, no one wants to see your boxers. If you want to show them so badly, then just don't wear jeans period.

    I remember I was walking home, and there were these 2 boys and there jeans were so low. So you know what my friend did? She pulled BOTH of them down! We were laughing so hard while we were running away from them.

    But anyways about your question. I have NO clue. They probably pull it up quickly before they come. lol

    Source(s): to the answer below me-no one hardly shows their thong anymore.
  • 1 decade ago

    I read that story too and it's so dumb. They are trying to legislate a symptom of gang activity, not the activity itself. If a private establishment like a club wants to ban certain types of clothing I can see that, but to outright ban anyone from doing it is wrong to me.

  • 1 decade ago

    ISN'T THE IDEA OF THIS LAW AMAZING? IN AMERICA CAN YOU BE PUNISHED FOR THE CLOTHES YOU WEAR?..I THOUGHT THAT HAPPENED ONLY IN COUNTRIES WITH POOR HUMAN RIGHTS RECORDS... BUT, YES IT FITS DOESN'T IT? IN LOUISIANA, YOU CAN GO TO PRISON FOR 20 YEARS FOR A SCHOOL FIGHT, AND A DEADLY WEAPON IS A TENNIS SHOE.

    Liz, you are wrong. Yes this "style" started in prisons, but it was because belts are taken away in jail. There is nothing regarding homosexuality involved.

  • 1 decade ago

    The saggy pants law is fine with me as long as it includes little teenage girls from having their thongs hanging out too. Gangsta's bug the crap out of me, but if your gonna fine them for seeing their underwear, you gotta fine the little girls too.

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