This law is not a bad idea, but it needs to apply only to males and overweight women.
As a Jefferson Parish resident, I have to admit that I get really, really tired of seeing guys walking around with their pants hanging around their ankles. Most of the guys who wear the really, really lowrider pants have such skinny little butts, too, they literally have to use both hands to hold their pants up. At least most of them clearly spend more on their underwear than their outerwear; it’s not like they’re exposing tighty whities, but usually fancy boxers. And I honestly don’t know how some of them manage to walk without breaking their necks, considering that the crotch of their pants is usually below their knees.
All that being said, however, I remember some of the stupid shit I wore as a teenager, and to be honest, there’s a whole lot more things around here we need the cops enforcing, not some stupid attempt to legislate taste. (I’m still wondering why it took two and a half years for them to arrest the nasty bitch selling drugs out of her house across the street from us, for example, although they finally did a few months ago, thank heaven.) But Louisiana is a bastion of idiocy, in its unique and charming way, so I really doubt much is going to happen with this.
But not to worry, there’s no chance they’ll legislate against baring your boobies for beads – although they do limit it to certain parts of the parade routes, to be fair, since Mardi Gras is actually mostly a family celebration. Yes, really.
This is so retarded. It really is. I’m sorry, I really am, but your country is filled with lunatics and is truly fucked. You live in a land where a glimpse of the top of someone’s ass crack prompts fucking pants legislation and a floopy tit during a football game generates more outrage than the bombing of an Iraqi residential compound on the off chance that the by then deposed and powerless Saddam Hussein might perhaps maybe possibly have been there.
Your country is becoming more and more mentally stunted and morally bankrupt and the only way to save your fucking souls is to jettison puritannical fucks like Derrick Shepherd before he and his kind drag the rest of you down with him. Fuck it. Morpheus? Hand me the red pill, I’m ready to get the fuck outta dodge.
What’s so ridiculous is that these guys dont show their ass cracks, just their underwear. Granted, sometimes it’s six or eight inches of underwear. But give me a nice pair of boxers over a girl’s thong handles hanging out above her low-slung jeans, with all the assorted bumps and bulges, any day.
And yes, we’re fucked. But we like it that way. 
Oh, and I just thought I’d add that Derrick Shepherd must not be exactly a brilliant legislator since I’ve never even heard of him before this. (He doesn’t represent my district, thank heavens!) Trust me, Jefferson Parish really does have some good guys:
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Our sheriff runs a really clean department (as opposed to Orleans Parish, who had the third cop indicted in as many weeks yesterday, this time for plotting a bank heist)
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They fix the potholes in the roads quite promptly (again as opposed to Orleans Parish, which hasn’t fixed a pothole in some areas in 20 years, and with the moisture down here potholes grow overnight)
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They’re replacing the nasty public housing projects with better housing
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The school board is trying desperately to do something about the schools (with difficulty since the voters keep turning down the funds they need to do it)
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The state actually USES its gambling money for education; depending on grades and test scores, kids can get up to a totally free education at a state university
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And last but definitely not least, we have about the best storm sewer system in the country (not a laughing matter, since we’re below sea level and can get 4" of rain an hour for hours on end during a storm and yet I’ve never seen the water in the streets get over a foot deep even when we got 24" of rain in 24 hours).
Even our new governor, who I’ve been skeptical of (since she was so close to Edwin Edwards, former Louisiana governor now serving his nearly mandatory prison sentence for ex-Louisiana governors), seems to be doing a pretty decent job so far.
It just takes one idiot publicity hound to make the whole state look stupid. At least this time it was just one dumb legislator, not the entirety of state government.
Don’t judge us all on one asshole, please. Even Louisiana, and Jefferson Parish specifically, is doing a pretty good job.
How could this possibly be Constitutional?
Lets cut to the chase and just ban pants all together… 
Do you really think the Louisiana legislature cares?
The documentary Zoolander explained how every political assassination of the last 200 years was masterminded by the fashion industry.
If I were Shepherd, I’d steer clear of really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking men.
Stupid =/= unconstitutional. But it does equal stupid.
When we legislated the length of women’s bathing attire, officers of the law had to actually measure whether the leg was within the required number of inches. Presumably, women had to submit to such tests.
Are they asking for enforcers of this law? I may be interested in a move and a carreer change. 
No, but imposing arbitrary restrictions on the freedom of expression of citizens=unconstitutional.
If you want to know what other stupidity is perpetrated on an almost weekly basis in Louisiana, I suggest you check out Suspect Device .
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Hey, whatever happened to the nutrias? I saw a “sports” show a few years back (but the show was from the 60s) where these guys was ridin’ around this swamp plinkin’ nutrias and just leavin’ them to git et by gators. Looked like fun.
As for Louisiana, as a person who has lived around Chicago for most of the past 40 years I appreciate any place, especially New Orleans and its environs, that makes Chicago look like it’s run by choirboys.
Down With Pants!
Down With Pants!
Considering that this is coming from the Bornagain Theocratic Republic of Louisiana Undergod Praisejeebus, the only suprise is the fact that thongs are legal at all.
Given the fact that many people in Louisiana are jobless, about to run out of unemployment, and the fact that Social Services in that state are cut down to the bone, I’d suggest that their legislators take another look at their Bibles. They might find something in there about “love thy neighbor”, “blessed are the peacemakers” or even “unless you become as little children, you can’t see the kingdom of God”.
Best still, “whatever you do to the least of these, you have done so unto Me”.
Is it legal to wear ONLY underwear, without any pants? I personally don’t see anything ‘lewd’ about a man walking around in boxers (assuming, of course, that the barn door remains closed); the person is completely covered, and not subject to ‘indecent exposure’ regulation, in a pair of shorts… regardless of the material.
So, if you’re out walking around with your underwear showing… the appropriate response, to avoid breaking the law, is to COMPLETELY remove your pants. This is legal, but the slightly-baggier-than-normal pants isn’t.
Yup. Makes sense to me. 
I fully support this legislation.
I’d pay $1000 for a license that would allow me to go around town yanking up saggy pants without physical or legal repercussions.
Hyperelastic: I’d pay… oh, say five bucks to see the first time you got punched in the face trying that. Ten for the first wedgie.
As if anybody’d ask to see a license before applying fist to face.
Then you’d have to figure if your pants are a form of protected expression, and after that, whether this law falls within the constitutionally admissible range of reasonable regulation of time, place and manner, and whether within that range it is arbitrary.