Clearly it is targeting the hip-hop style of wearing your pants really low and showing your boxer shorts. The use of “his,” though, makes me wonder if girls in low-cut jeans with their thongs hanging out could be committing a crime too?! What about plumbers with their buttcracks showing? Will they be thrown in jail?
Boy these legislators have way too much time on their hands…
You have the correct usage, Shade. About the law, it seems to be an awful frivolous use of the lawmakers time. On the other hand, people wearing their pants below the waste look like idiots, and I don’t like public displays of stupidity.
Heh. That proposed law was written by an idiot. One who apparently hasn’t noticed that * all * pants are worn below the waist. In a few cases, the * waistband * of the pants may dip below the waist.
As far as I know, there’s no precise demarcation on the body that denotes the waist. Interesting to know how they’re going to enforce that law. Anyone who ventures out without a shirt is going to potentially be in violation.
And at the very least, I suspect a lot of plumbers are going to have trouble making bail.
Humor aside, I’d be interested in knowing what compelling public need that statute is going to fulfill.
Considering the vast numbers of people I’ve seen who wear their pants this way, enforcing this would be impossible. They’d be fining entire NEIGHBORHOODS.
Hmmm. Does that mean guys at the beach not wearing underwear could be charged? If you don’t have underwear on under your boardshorts, they become intimate clothing by definition…
Good point!
I am absolutely sick of the girls around here (college and high schoolers ) wearing pants so low you can about see their pudendas!
Call me a prude, but I just find it nasty.
Well, the dirty old men of the Louisiana legislature probably don’t mind seeing the scantily-clad young ladies prancing about with their low-rider pants and thongs showing…they probably just care about the gangsta-wannabees in their hip-hop style clothes.
But yeah I agree with you. Seeing the Brittney Spears-wannabe pre-teens and young teens and the outfits they wear, it is hard to believe their mothers let them out of the house. It is indecent, IMO.
They must not have anything useful to do in Louisiana.
While I agree it looks REALLY stupid when people walk around wearing shorts 6 to 8 inches below where they’re supposed to be worn… To outlaw it for whatever reason is rediculous and authoritarian.
Now I can see a potention reasoning for it. The people who wear their pants like that are most often in a certain type of lifestyle. By using this law as an excuse to question people and search them for drugs, they could potentially pull in a lot of people for drug possession.