Showing your underwear in Public

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

I went to my old hometown in Middle Ga today to a 4th Celebration. It was good to go home, as I ahd not been in years. There was a group of youths standing around, and one had his pants down below his butt. A cop went over and warned him once, the kid pulled them up a tad then pulled them back down as soon as the cop walked off. The Cop came back and warned him again. Same thing happened

The Cop came back. Walked up to him. Cuffed him up and escorted him away from the area . Apparently their is a local ordinance against having your butt hanging out in public and it is enforced.

I just fail to understand how having your pants hanging around your knees and barley being able to walk is cool ? I do understand how cuffing the said perpetrator made me feel really good about hoping there are a few sane people left in America.

[aaydrian 479]

Some say it's style/fashion. I see a few walking around in tight pants steaming their balls. I try to make sense of it.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Some say it's style/fashion. I see a few walking around in tight pants steaming their balls. I try to make sense of it.

Yeah I guess. I reckon if I have lived long enough that what young people do irritates me, it just means I am old.

[aaydrian 479]

Has nothing to do with age. Wearing your pants so low that everytime you cross the street your life flashes before your eyes is stupid.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Has nothing to do with age. Wearing your pants so low that everytime you cross the street your life flashes before your eyes is stupid.

I agree with you 100% and it irritates the heck out of me, but as a libertarian, the cop handcuffing an otherwise well behaved decent looking kid, bothered me a tad also. Sort of playing the devils advocate, but I could could see his underwear, the flip side of that is that underwear is an article of clothing and does cover the butt. Darn tuff call.

[X Factor 1,112]

This type of behaviour originate from the prisons. Then it was portrayed in the music videos and became cool and acceptable behaviour among the youths. Utter ridiculousness.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I went to my old hometown in Middle Ga today to a 4th Celebration. It was good to go home, as I ahd not been in years. There was a group of youths standing around, and one had his pants down below his butt. A cop went over and warned him once, the kid pulled them up a tad then pulled them back down as soon as the cop walked off. The Cop came back and warned him again. Same thing happened

The Cop came back. Walked up to him. Cuffed him up and escorted him away from the area . Apparently their is a local ordinance against having your butt hanging out in public and it is enforced.

I just fail to understand how having your pants hanging around your knees and barley being able to walk is cool ? I do understand how cuffing the said perpetrator made me feel really good about hoping there are a few sane people left in America.

The cop gave that rodent two too many warnings if ya ask me.

[X Factor 1,112]

The cop gave that rodent two too many warnings if ya ask me.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

The concern is that the 'fashion statement' is prison/igang influenced. The City of Atlanta did indeed pass a law that states it is illegal to wear pants so low that undergarments show. It has been very well publicized and is meant as a means to discourage young men from imitating prison/gang attire as if it is something 'cool'. It is indeed being enforced - and that young man had 2 chances to correct the problem and choose not to. That was pretty lenient, so he has no one but himself to blame.

Here's a true story from about a year before the ordinance was passed . . . a young man with his pants really low on his hips was seen breaking into cars. Police were called who arrived on the scene and interrupted him in the act. The young man turned and started to run away - and got about 10 feet before he promptly fell flat on his face. His pants were so low that he was not able to run and his knees got tangled up in the crotch, tripping him. Looking 'cool' certainly didn't save him from a lot of very public ridicule and laughter - as well as jail time.

There have been debates in other cities that are part of the Greater Atlanta Metropolitan area whether they will enact a similar ordinance. Some have and some haven't.

[aaydrian 479]

This is what the kid was prepping for.

Edited July 5, 2012 by aaydrian

[Marilyn. 340]

This is what the kid was prepping for.

Snopes.com: Sagging Pants

[aaydrian 479]

Snopes.com: Sagging Pants

Didn't read what you linked (12am) so I'll stick to my diagram behind this popular fashion trend. Not sure if anyone said it but I also heard that prisoners may have 'dropped' their pants to irritate the COs and or being inmates continue with their love of breaking rules (be it now the ones concerning attire).

[TBoneTX 45,273]

These young people are missing the point or are outright deluded. The idea is not to let one's pants sag, but to ensure that one's underwear (that of others) defies gravity. Everyone who has not yet answered this VJ poll are invited to do so, si man:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/249659-wedgies-si-man/

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

These young people are missing the point or are outright deluded. The idea is not to let one's pants sag, but to ensure that one's underwear (that of others) defies gravity. Everyone who has not yet answered this VJ poll are invited to do so, si man:

http://www.visajourn...wedgies-si-man/

Your wedgie thread is not all that it's cracked up to be, si man!

[Marilyn. 340]

Didn't read what you linked (12am) so I'll stick to my diagram behind this popular fashion trend. Not sure if anyone said it but I also heard that prisoners may have 'dropped' their pants to irritate the COs and or being inmates continue with their love of breaking rules (be it now the ones concerning attire).

my link basically said that diagram is false... sagging pants did originate in prison but not for the reason stated.. it was because a lot of prisoners were given clothes that were too big and they are not allowed to have belts..