Sagging Pants and the War on Crime
Well, the French may ban the burqa, but in America we're fighting the battle of sagging pants. Dublin, Georgia has joined a growing list of towns with ordinances against the wearing of sagging pants. Yes, I find the sagging pants trend intensely annoying, but generally in America we have the right to wear what we want, as even this Bronx judge recognized.
And besides, it turns out that sagging pants may be helpful in the war on crime. First of all, the perps can't run as fast with trousers around their knees. Secondly, a cop can pull the pants up without committing a Fourth Amendment search, according to a Minnesota Court (h/t: Lowering the Bar). So I say: let's protect every American's inalienable right to wear sagging pants. Once the word gets out that it's perfectly legal, it will surely lose its appeal.
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Jul '10
Re: Sagging Pants and the War on Crime
Good God, Adam! What's next? The right for chubby middle aged people to wear spandex? Is this what the Founders intended?????????
Re: Sagging Pants and the War on Crime
Patrick, that is precisely where I draw the line. I'm sure the Founders would back me up on that one.
Jun '10
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So, Adam, how do you feel about the hoody? Better still, how do you feel about a hoody worn with saggy pants? Being a traditionalist I say, bring back the toga! Imagine what Brooks Bos. could do with a three piece toga ensemble with senatorial red trim?
Jul '10
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I only support truly sagging pants, or I agree to refuse to support them, or, well, okay, in my old neighborhood there was one guy who had super saggies who was always swicthing off hands. One hand always was supporting the pants by the fly. If he let go with both hands at one time it was like the classic song, "Pants on the Ground", but I assure you he had no intent to flee from the police, unless he wanted to do so pantless like a fugitive Lady Gaga, and he was not likely to be a shop lifter, or a drug dealer, or gainfully employed, at least he could not do those things in his saggy pants. On the other hand he wore decent slacks and a collared shirt on Sundays and took his granny and her friends to chuch in a minivan, so I really don't think he was ever a bad person. I would rather have someone in saggy pants, or even naked, who was nice, or at least inclined to leave me alone as a neighbor, than a person who would ban saggy pants, or deny me a bird feeder.
Jun '10
Re: Sagging Pants and the War on Crime
To paraphrase Guy Clark:
Picasso said before he died
There’s one more paintin' I'd like to try
The doctor held his breath and then
Picasso nailed a mandolin
He’s born in Spain and died in France
He was not scared of [s]aggy pants
Aug '10
Re: Sagging Pants and the War on Crime
Patrick: "Good God, Adam! What's next? The right for chubby middle aged people to wear spandex? Is this what the Founders intended?????????" Adam: "Patrick, that is precisely where I draw the line. I'm sure the Founders would back me up on that one." Gentlemen, if you've ever noticed how fasionable tight breeches were during the time of the Founding, and how important it was for men to have form-fitting stockings in order to "make a good leg" (an accepted means of displaying one's manliness, like flexing one's biceps today), you would see that the Founders would have welcomed Spandex as a godsend. As for "Pants on the Ground", here's the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMwhl4IrPNc
Jul '10
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Sorry, Adam, we can't think about saggy pants right now.
We're all online looking at pictures of Inez Sainz's behind.
Jul '10
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This.
Also, if he wants to fight us, he has the option of fighting with one hand, or using both hands causing his pants to fall down, binding his legs, at which point we can employ what the Academy instructors call "balance displacement".
May '10
Re: Sagging Pants and the War on Crime
Personally, I regard sagging pants as a cry for help, i.e. discipline, i.e. a spanking. After all, it is a trend started by the fatherless. When I pass a boy with sagging pants, I remark to my young children, "That boy is telling us he needs help."
May '10
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Every generation deserves to have something for which to be deeply embarrassed in their mature years. I say this as someone who came of age in the '70's, and my teenagers have found the pictures.
May '10
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My father always decries the loss of the collar and collar stud, not to mention the morning coat....
The whole hoody thing is rather too malevolent for my taste, it's a step away from balaclavas and associated thugery.
Jun '10
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I can't get behind a legal ban on saggy pants, but I would recommend that a few people engage in some self-help as recommended by my wife. She is a model of propriety, but hates sagging pants. When she sees a particularly egregious example, she invariably says, "I feel like kicking that kid in the a**."
She doesn't do it, nor do I (we're both a bit old), but we know that some of younger Ricochet contributors and members are young enough to create a "kick 'em in the ____" movement. Sort of a modern and bit more genteel version of vigilante justice.