Atlanta considers banning baggy pants

RolandTD20Kdrummer

In other news...in the gay neighborhoods walking around with full on oiled up and throbbing erection is considered somewhat over the top...which has just come up a few notches in the past few months to edge out assless chaps http://members.arstechnica.com/x/zuvembi/pink-assless-chaps.jpg

CorporateWhore

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

In other news...in the gay neighborhoods walking around with full on oiled up and throbbing erection is considered somewhat over the top...which has just come up a few notches in the past few months to edge out assless chaps http://members.arstechnica.com/x/zuvembi/pink-assless-chaps.jpg

Any true PJ fan supports assless chaps for one obvious reason: Mike McCready's supple ass.

surferdude

soulsinging wrote:

that said, i guess it's their city. i see no reason they can't decide this is how they want their community to be if they are also allowed to control where people can smoke, what they can smoke, parking tickets, public drunkenness, and so on.

If NYC can ban trans fat in restaurants I see this as no worse an invasion of privacy or personal rights.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

CorporateWhore wrote:

Any true PJ fan supports assless chaps for one obvious reason: Mike McCready's supple ass.

I heard in the right light that it's so tight it's almost shines...

Brain of mJ

Leave it to my screwed up city to make national news with something like this (shudders). I'm convinced that if it's a f'd up news story, it's nexus is in Atlanta: ie. Mike Vick, Runaway Bride, Benoit, Courthouse Shooter Brian Nichols, Cynthia McKinney, ect.

Rhinocerous Surprise

Doesn't your constitution have something about the right to bare arms, legs, and buttcrack?:p

dharma69

inmytree wrote:

epidemic....?!?! like the bird flu...?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_fe_st/atlanta_sagging_pants



2 hours, 10 minutes ago

Baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs would be illegal under a proposed amendment to Atlanta's indecency laws.

The amendment, sponsored by city councilman C.T. Martin, states that sagging pants are an "epidemic" that is becoming a "major concern" around the country.

"Little children see it and want to adopt it, thinking it's the in thing," Martin said Wednesday. "I don't want young people thinking that half-dressing is the way to go. I want them to think about their future."

The proposed ordinance would also bar women from showing the strap of a thong beneath their pants. They would also be prohibited from wearing jogging bras in public or show a bra strap, said Debbie Seagraves, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.

The proposed ordinance states that "the indecent exposure of his or her undergarments" would be unlawful in a public place. It would go in the same portion of the city code that outlaws sex in public and the exposure or fondling of genitals.

The penalty would be a fine in an amount to be determined, Martin said.

But Seagraves said any legislation that creates a dress code would not survive a court challenge. She said the law could not be enforced in a nondiscriminatory way because it targets something that came out of the black youth culture.

"This is a racial profiling bill that promotes and establishes a framework for an additional type of racial profiling," Seagraves said.

Martin, who is black, said he plans to hold public hearings and vet the proposal through churches, civil rights groups and neighborhood organizations. The proposal will get its first public airing next Tuesday in the City Council's Public Safety Committee.

"The purpose of the paper is to generate some conversation to see if we can find a solution," Martin said. "It will be like all the discussions we've had around the value of the hip-hop culture. We know there are First Amendment issues ... and some will say I'm just trying to put young black men in jail, but it's going to be fines."

Makeda Johnson, an Atlanta mother of a 14-year-old girl, said she is glad Martin introduced the proposal. She does not want to see a law against clothing, but said she thinks teenagers are sending a message with a way of dressing that is based in jailhouse behavior.

Atlanta would not be the first city to take on sagging pants.

Earlier this year, the town council in Delcambre, La., passed an ordinance that carries a fine of up to $500 or six months in jail for exposing underwear in public. Several other municipalities and parish governments in Louisiana have enacted similar laws in recent months.

Politicians are without a clue. This is hardly the solution to the so-called "problem".

If they just outlawed underwear there wouldn't be any issues of it being exposed by baggy or any other kind of clothing.

Fucktards.

Juberoo

bootlegger10 wrote:

They wouldn't need this ban if people didn't dress like assholes. "Maybe I'll get more respect if I pull my pants down and show my boxers."

ROFL that "cracked" me up!

Juberoo

sweet adeline wrote:

i'm all in favor of seeing girls thongs.

yeah me too....

of seeing them all burned!

Whoever created thongs is an idiot. I can't stand them....its like walking around with a permanent wedgie.....stupid design!

Juberoo

hahahah the chaps!!!!! Too funny!

OMG can you imagine going into a SanFran club or restaurant etc. and be given a seat that some guy with assless chaps just left!!! I would want it bleached first!

Juberoo

Brain of (M)J wrote:

Leave it to my screwed up city to make national news with something like this (shudders). I'm convinced that if it's a f'd up news story, it's nexus is in Atlanta: ie. Mike Vick, Runaway Bride, Benoit, Courthouse Shooter Brian Nichols, Cynthia McKinney, ect.

Yep....another reason to add to the list of why its called "Yucklanta" here in the north

Cosmo

sweet adeline wrote:

i'm all in favor of seeing girls thongs.

...
It all depends.
If she's an uglier, fatter version of Rosie O'Donnell... I'm passing. I don't want to see someone testing the tensile strength of lycra spandex by straining the fibers around a barrel of testured, gelatinous goo.
...
And as for the dudes.. I would think the Altanta cops like them wearing them pants... they only have to chase them 1/2 a block before their tousers trip them.

redrock

This would be funny if it weren't so pathetic and such a waste of time and tax payers money to pay these guys salaries.

chopitdown

upina2001 wrote:

ive seen reports on this and they seem pretty confident that this may help things. Plus the parents will be fined if the kids continue to violate the rules.
Of course, its a good money maker too!!

so they'll stick it to the parents on baggy pants, but won't hold parents accountable in the education of their children. I'm glad that we've got our priorities straight.

chopitdown

surferdude wrote:

If NYC can ban trans fat in restaurants I see this as no worse an invasion of privacy or personal rights.

at least the NYC ban can be seen as a public health move.

soulsinging

surferdude wrote:

If NYC can ban trans fat in restaurants I see this as no worse an invasion of privacy or personal rights.

that's the example i was looking for... thanks!

soulsinging

chopitdown wrote:

at least the NYC ban can be seen as a public health move.

so could this.

Collin

This is ridiculous. What the fuck are these people doing? This is what they come up with? Banning clothes?

It's fucking insane.

JamMastaE

how many of you still believe you live in a FREE COUNTRY???

I'm getting really sick of Big Brother sticking his big fat pointy fucking nose in my/our business!!!!!!!!!!!



"we gotta take the power back" Zack De la Rocha

chopitdown

soulsinging wrote:

so could this.

which is true, but baggy pants is def much more of a stretch, imo.