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Georgia Town Raises Nearly $4,000 Off of Saggy Pants Fines

Sagging Pants Equals Rising Revues

It's a good look on you. No, really . . .

Authorities in Albany, Ga. may have found a solution to the national economic crisis.

The answer? Fine people with laughably bad fashion sense that borderlines on “indecent exposure.”

On Nov. 23 of last year, the city of Albany instituted a ban on anyone wearing pants (or skirts) more than three inches below the hips.

The first saggy-pants ordinance violator less than nine months ago started a cash flow to the city, reports the Albany Herald

Under the ordinance “the municipal court shall have the same authority as the superior court to enforce obedience to its orders, judgments and sentences.”

“The Municipal Court advises that 187 citations have been issued and fines collected of $3,916.49,” since the ordinance went into effect Nov. 23 says City Attorney Nathan Davis.

First-time offenders must pay a $25 fine. On subsequent offenses, the fine can run as high as $200.

Considering that the Albany Police Department is averaging more than 20 citations a month for the indecent exposure saggy pants ordinance, it is possible the rest of the year could add another $1,500 to the city’s general fund pot, reports the Herald.

Although the ordinance prohibits arrest or imprisonment for violations, it can impose 40 hours of community service to be completed in lieu of fines.

Sagging Pants Equals Rising Revues

Disregarding polite society is not a constitutional right.

The inhabitants of Albany are not only spared the uninvited parade of drawers, but they will also have clean roads.

Doesn’t sound like a bad deal.

But wait! There’s more!

Albany is not alone among the cities that want to do away with the pants-around-the-ankle look. It has been reported that other cities in Georgia including Dublin, Hawkinsville, Plains, and Rome have similar ordinances or are considering them.

Furthermore, other states such as Florida, Virginia and Louisiana also have cities with the ban or are considering a ban, according to the website USATODAY.com.

If this trend were to catch on, then towns and cities across the nation could generate the revenue they need to operate and at the same time instruct fashion-challenged citizens on the benefits of wearing a belt.

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  • Mopar 1969
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:15pm

    Hmmmm….How are they going to run from the POELEESUS when da man chases dem.Well don’t axe me cos I wesr a belt.

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:29pm

      There is nothing better than watching Cop’s on T.V. and seeing one of these Einsteins trying to run and having his pants fall down. Watching the perp doing a face plant on pavement, then a big cop land on him with a perfect body slam….It’s just to cool. Also the compliment to the sagging pants is the shoes untied.

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    • britlynz
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:43pm

      Enough with the racist crap.

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:48pm

      Yeah they need to encourage dirt bags to wear them like this, they are easier to beat up, shoot or arrest that way. HArd to fight with your pants around your ankles…

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:10pm

      @BRYTLYNS….??? What was racist….I love it no matter what the race.

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    • howmayihelpyou
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:44pm

      Originated in prison. It means they’re open for business. Why would any self-respecting person want to do that?

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    • rangerp
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:05pm

      @britlynz

      Huge difference between racism and realism. What group of people are know for walking around with thier pants down, their butts out and shoes untied. Have you watched the show cops? If so, seeing Tyrone try to run from the po po, and have his saggy pants fall down, and the cops catch him is not fiction, it it real.

      If people want to act stupid, they do not get a pass becuase of skin color. Stupid is as stupid does.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:08pm

      This is what growing up without a father has led to.

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    • Phoenixsoulfire
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:32pm

      @britlynz

      I love how everything becomes racist when anyone mentions anything that isn’t racist lol.

      Also how about we start calling like it is with security in airports too. if they look like someone fromt he middle east pull them out to search them instead of a 90 year old man in a wheel chair and taking his urin bag out. Sorry to say blacks commit most crimes and they are usually from the inner city so you tell me what is what.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:34pm

      @motonutt

      I can’t watch COPS, it’s just too much seeing all the human debris in this country. And everyone of them is a stinking democrap.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:34pm

      Rangerp,
      Sadly it has taken over in the public schools among whites as well. Even church going boys are doing it. It’s their “fashion”. Children are such lemmings. The girls dress like prostitutes and the boys like gang bangers. I want to slap their parents, or send them pictures of what their kids look like at school.

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    • M100Spiral
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:38pm

      God, I am so relieved to know that I am normal. This trend has been offending me for quite awhile.

      Las Vegas is full of young teenagers walking around with their Levis like that. I always was a bit confused on why the young men were running around like that. I feared they were inviting something they may not really want.

      I wish this city would pass an ordinance like Albany, Georgia, has. Our city could use the money as well.

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    • Clive
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:47pm

      georgia, of all places, what a shock. whats up ranger, i see you’re still defending stupidity. you got any more tough guy threats from behind your moms computer?

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    • rangerp
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:05pm

      dress like that in front of my daughters or wife, and you are very likely to get the toe of a Tony Lama planted into the crack of your butt.

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    • theraygun
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:54pm

      I wanna know, when can we start fining the muffin-top girls for wearing hip-hugger jeans and thongs? I’m almost more offended by them than the “penguin waddlers.”

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 11:46pm

      It makes you sound like a racist. I agree with britlynz.

      People who visit here read that and are instantly turned off. What’s worse are the dog-pile groupthinkers who join right in.

      Grow up.

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    • Favored93
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 12:18am

      @howmayihelpyou
      HAHAHA You stole my post!!!!! I was going to say that!!!! But glad some one did. Not many people seem to know that hahaha!
      I stopped a kid yesterday and told him to pull up his pants and tried to explain were that started and he said I was lying (ignorant brat). I still made him pull them up my little kids were with me and to be honest it pissed me off. I did not show my weapon but I do have my CCW and that made my wife worry hehehe.
      Glad our local governments are finally doing something about those punks making the rest of us see their ass’s.

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    • Libertarian Infidel
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 12:54am

      LMAO @RANGERP You say it’s not racist, then use the word “Tyrone” obviously referring to a black person, and the original poster was using lexicon similar to that of stereotyped black person. Not racist? Yeah right. You people ALWAYS make racist comments about blacks. I remember when there was a fight on a subway and all the comments were like “no wonder…they’re all black” and similar such statements. You people need to realize whites are the minority, and there are people out there different then you, blacks included. It‘s not good to live your life feeling such hatred and anger towards a group of people just because they’re skin color is a darker shade of brown then yours, and causes you to stereotype the entire group. That’s childish and stupid. It’s like in kindergarten: “I want the blue crayon!“ or ”I want the yellow crayon!” Color is always a stupid thing to fight over.

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    • dmar003
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:30am

      If you think it is bad here, you should go to California. I watched some kid pulling his pants up constantly, I think the waste size was about 40in I was waiting for him to trip over them. I just wanted to pull them down and laugh.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 6:51am

      “because they’re skin color is a darker shade of brown then yours, and causes you to stereotype the entire group”

      I am not speaking of the entire group. I do not have any black friends, but a few of the best friends I have, happen to be black. They do not act like heathen thugs, wear stupid looking baggy pants…. A few days ago, I helped out a two young boys in a parking lot in Columbus, Ga that were black. They had a busted alternator belt, and needed a jump. Both had on the baggy pants. I gave them both grief over the issue, but did it in a comical way. Some of these kids have no real male in thier life to show them the way. they are influenced by the thug rap culture, and that which comes of of the prison. There are a whole lot of folks that would not do as I, and knock “Tyrone”, and yet they would not stop and help these young boys either.

      turning a blind eye because of skin color, is just as racist, as wanting to to treat an entire group badly based on ethnicity.

      Example; gangster rap is heathen filth. It is not heathen filth because if originated from the black folks, it is heathen filth because of content. Listen to it. What other music uses the “F” like word like rap, calles women bitches and ho, talkes about violence against the police….. To many Americans are turning a blind eye to it, because they do not want to offend. I would prefer to be correct over being popular.

      Black is a condition of having more pigmentation it is not

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    • Jacque
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:21am

      If these “boys” only knew what wearing your pants like that means…it started in prison letting other prisoners know you wanted a “girlfriend”. I tell my college students pull your pants up or wear a belt not only do I not want to see your hairy butt or underwear neither does any self respecting female student.

      They are NOT allowed to dress like that in my classes… I haven’t been called down to the Dean yet :)

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    • pbrenda51
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 11:09am

      Seriously, who wants to see their dirty underwear and butt cracks? no, seriously

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 1:31pm

      Whatever happened to smaller government?

      You claim to want MORE freedom yet you all are in favor of having the government RESTRICT the type of clothing we can wear?

      You find a guy’s undergarments to be distasteful? Understandable…

      Sharia law finds a woman’s exposed skin to be distasteful. And yet every single person on this board denounces the mandate that women must be covered in public.

      What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

      How can you fear one type of clothing restriction and embrace another? Are you idiots or just hypocrites?

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    • MONIFICENT
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:09pm

      Ok as a person this bothers me i mean stupid kids pull your pants up. As far as the racist stuff well i thought they had a pic of a white kid with his pants down too. oh yeah and i am black and guess what i don’t want my wife, mom, grandma, or child to see the crack of your butt no matter what color it is. that being said how many of us here on site followed stupid trends when we were kids ?

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    • Black Manta
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 3:41pm

      You just murdered the english accent….WOW

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    • jmiller_42
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 3:42pm

      So much for limited government. These articles are great for identifying who is really for limited government and who is just for less government when it is convenient to them.

      We have 187 citations which probably took a half hour each in time taken by officers who are out to “protect and serve” the public but are instead becoming big brother and telling others how to dress.

      So you have about 95 hrs of police time wrapped up in this enforcement or approx. $2000
      Plus any lawyer fees and city council time wasted in writing up this dictation, and you come up with making a few bucks by selling away a little more freedom. Hopefully next time the city doesn’t find carrying a bible offensive. They could probably make a killing on that one. Just line the cops up on Sunday and the government could really be raking it in.

      The idea is right, I hate sagging pants as much as the next guy. But when we impose our will on these people it does not do anything but fuel their rebellious engines and we are worse off than when we started. How about talking to them and educating them about why we don’t like seeing that sort of thing in society? How about mentoring or inviting one of these guys into your life to show them what being a man is. All these neocons here just want to throw the book at them, but then don’t understand when the infestation comes back twice as bad.

      Wake up people! FREEDOM is why this country has any greatness at all, and we are throwing it away

      Ron

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    • rangerp
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 4:53pm

      @VoteBushIn12

      We want a small federal Gov. We have no problem with the local gov making rules for the people in that area.

      I want public schools in the hands of the local and state gov.

      It is not that we want no government in our lives,. we want it local./

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    • ACLUHater
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 6:56pm

      Why won’t the rich white man gimme a job???

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:55pm

      There is a fine line between dressing sexy and porn…When people dress like that in public IT BECOMES PORN…and in very bad taste!!

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 11:20pm

      @RangerP

      What if my community wanted to adopt Shariah law? What if my community was 80% Muslim and we had a townhall meeting and voted to adopt Shariah law?

      Would you have a problem with that?

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    • rangerp
      Posted on October 5, 2011 at 10:22am

      @VoteBushIn12

      Come on now, you have to be smarter than that.

      We have this thing at the end ouf our constitution called the Bill of Rights. We allso have a series of legal folks, going all the way to the Supreme Court.

      We have individual freedoms that can not be taken away, by the fed, state, or local government.

      Sharia Law would be a violation of our first ammendment.

      You have a right of expression, but your right to express has limits. You can listen to what ever music you like, but when you play it so loud, that I am forced to listen to it….

      You can pick the style of clothes you like, but there is also limits. You can not walk around naked, women can not go aroud topless in public….. If the local population wants to stop kids from walking around in just thier underwear, they have the right to stop it. If those wearing the baggy pants want, they can challenge in court.

      That is how the system works.

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    • dnnyshdy
      Posted on October 5, 2011 at 8:25pm

      Every time I see someone like this I want like to take a taser to them.This has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever seen in my life.

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:26am

      About 10 years ago my mom was in the local Mall when a kid with his pants hanging way below his undershorts, my mom called out to him and told him she had a safety pin in her purse if he’d like it.
      She was in her mid-80′s and was serious. I’ve laughed at that so many times when I see the little idiots running around with their underwear showing for what reason, I’ve never been able to understand.
      Are they showing they can afford nice, colorful underwear? Big deal!

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  • bcgriffin
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:15pm

    I guess you folks know that is a prison call sign saying “this butts available” for you. That’s the reason they wear them like that. They are looking for a Horny Man. It’s a sexual thing not fashion.

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    • huberto
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:18pm

      Thank you!

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    • Consentiondum
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:26pm

      Despite its questionable origins (I have heard other explanations) it is just a fashion. I can’t see how someone in their right mind would make this a law unless certain body parts were actually exposed (sometimes yes, but most the time the underwear covers even the upper buttocks) . Most guys that sport this kind of fashion would be mighty offended if you implied they were looking for another man. It’s fashion for most of them.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:53pm

      BUT CONSENTIONDUM,
      .
      If the boys and young men learned one of the meanings in the culture for droopy drawers, maybe these fine specimens of manhood would rethink how they dress.

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    • calonzap
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:23pm

      Hahahaha ….. you are so right. What a bunch of dummies.

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    • YepImaConservative
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:39pm

      >CONSENTIONDIM. Fashion my arse… er, their arse!

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    • rangerp
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:07pm

      @Consentiondum

      smooshing dog crap on top or your head could be a fashion also, but it is still stupid. If you do not see walking around with your butt out, and having to always hold your pants with one hand as being stupid, then you are stupid.

      If men in American would take off a belt, and crack heathens across the back side, they would stop this nonsence.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:37pm

      Consentiondum,
      Underwear, especially boxers, is not exactly hygenically safe material thickness, if you know what I mean.

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    • El Pistoffo
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 3:21am

      @CONSENTIONDUM

      Underwear are just that. You WEAR it UNDER you clothing. It should be Obvious enough to a decent person

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  • Socialism_Is_The_New_Black
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:12pm

    Sagging, so this is one fashion trend that never will go out of style? We went from fashion overkill in the 80‘s to hobo look of rap and grunge in the 90’s. It’s funny when boys now take their dates to high school dances and dress up by wearing Lacoste type tennis shirt and jeans, while the girls are all dressed up like they have been doing for decades. Ah heck, just look at a lot of pic of adults at social events and you will see the same exact thing.

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    • El Pistoffo
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 3:25am

      I have to agree. There was a time when the youth dressed up nicely to try to impress. Now it’s backwards. They dress like hobos and even go to job interviews like that. Lowering their own standards.

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  • Junter
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:10pm

    Why, I remember when kids wore belts to keep their pants up… Yea sure grandpa…. Gosh I’m feeling old here..

    I hope this ordinance comes to California!

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    • This_Individual
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:35pm

      Thre are plenty of city ordinances here that are soley for increasing revenue.But, are you saying that you would like to see this at a state level? If so, wouldn‘t that infringe on the individual’s right to be dressing as they please (no matter how tasteless)? Once you start letting a government regulate things of this nature, what‘s to say they won’t stop with these guys? Here we are with state legislators trying to pass AB889 ( the bill which would unionize babysitters in our state). I think we have more pressing issues than from stopping some no-momma-having-fool from wearing his pants too low, don’t you? If you’d like to let Gov. Moonbeam what you think about AB889, here’s the number :) Jerry’s office : 916.322.7152

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    • britlynz
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:45pm

      I’d rather that our state house focus on the economic crisis than attempt to distract us with meaningless discussions about where kids are wearing their britches.

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  • roadhog
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:09pm

    Kick them in the Ass

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  • tom
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:09pm

    They represent generation after generation of ignorance. It will never end….

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  • Lion420
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:09pm

    Here’s an idea…get some fathers to mentor them. As a father, I’d like to smack these young punks for as they say “actin the fool”. That’s what it boils down to. Discipline in the home. Respect for the other people in your society. It’s called a waistband because it goes around your waist…and underwear should go UNDER your pants. If you can’t dress yourself, you should not be leaving the house.

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  • Charles
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:08pm

    Ha ha ha! Look at those b***h @** punks with their pants down in public = ) No thanks bia’s. I don’t want any of that even though apparently you are begging for it. Losers.

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  • Bowmaster
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:07pm

    Let them wear them low….at least this concealed weapons permit holder can see who doesn’t have a gun tucked in their waistband.
    They are just look stupid….and, unarmed!
    I appreciate the advantage because, I AM ARMED!

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  • beeg1
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:04pm

    Think of all the crack this will get off the streets.

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  • goobert
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:58pm

    What a waste of police resources.

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    • Consentiondum
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:21pm

      Seriously! I am not a fan of saggy pants by any means, but this is is kinda silly… Fashion police? give me a break. If their underwear is covering anything unsightly this is an infringement on someone’s freedom.

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:22pm

      @Consentiondum

      I don‘t want to have to see anybody’s underwear while I walk or drive down the street. What’s the difference between that and walking in just your undies alone? The key word here is UNDERwear…they go UNDER the clothing. So yea I dont know if it’s against the law or not; to walk down the street in your UNDERwear, but I sure as he’ll dont want to see it. There has to be some sort of dress code law or we would have nude people walking around everywere. So where does your freedom line start and begin? Totaly Nude? Undies Alone? or Saggy Butt Crack Showing Half Visible Undies Style?

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:31pm

      begin/end*

      Or, the law could be you wear your pants up around your private parts the way your supposed to…

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    • BarCalliyon
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 8:57pm

      So your in favor of people not wearing swimsuits as well? They show far more than just a pair of boxers do. I see girls running around in shorts that are smaller than boxers and no one complains. Its a stupid law plain and simple.

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    • Clive
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:06pm

      Truthbeliever2
      It ends when you are seeing their penis’s and exposed butt. You aren’t, you are seeing cotton, so quit being such a puritan fart. Like others have said, there are many more “revealing” items men and women wear all the time.

      “I’m for less government, unless you are talking about regulating pants on black kids, CAUSE THAT HAS TO STOP”. God, grow up.

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    • georgiavietvet
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 11:33pm

      goobert……………… no, its not a waste of police recources. it takes only a minute for police to spot these pants around the ankles idiots. all the police have do is stop them, write them a ticket, and be on their way catching more crooks. simple as that. i would like to know how much repeat business the police get…………………………………..

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 12:34am

      @Clive

      In Albany it ends 3 inches below the top of the hips. With you it’s when you can see their penis or exposed butt. Yes people wear more revealing things, but they do it at the beach and at the pool, and parties. The places where its appropriate. As I stated I don’t want to have to see their undergarmets pure and simple, and neither does Albany and possibly Dublin, Hawkinsville, Plains, and Rome, Ga.

      You don’t have to defend the blacks from my statements; quite the opposite. I am going to defend their right to be brought up like respectable human beings, and not dress to immulate prison society and people who commit acts of thuggery. Besides its not just blacks who dress this way. My cousin dresses this way, and he’s a redhead.

      I am for more freedom as well; but a line has to be drawn somewhere or there would be people walking around the streets in the nude. Which would totally cross your puritan line of indecent exposure.

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    • kung
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 3:02pm

      Yeah right. It takes them away from their donuts and coffee.

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  • jwmarietta
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:58pm

    Ok, so ya look like a thug/ piece of **** when you wear your pants like that. I absolutely hate it. but the gov’t should not be making money of how you wear your clothes. If you dont have on underwear then ok, its public nudity, but i could wear basketball shorts under my pants and u are seeing less skin or anything provocative but i would still get a ticket. Thats complete ****. f the gov’t for taking away freedom. who gives a rats ass how u think it looks. i think a burka looks worse so lets start fining them. its such crap

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    • brado9505
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:55pm

      you look like an idiot and people are offended by it. put your pants on dumba@@!!

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    • YoungConservativesRule
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 8:23pm

      I second that.

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    • Clive
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:09pm

      “you look like an idiot and people are offended.”

      Obviously a great reason to have the police step in. Maybe you’d like to run for the GOP ticket in 2012.

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    • TMP
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:32pm

      @Brad….

      So if you’re offended by it, it’s okay to outlaw it? That’s the problem with this country – everyone has started believing that they have the right to *not* be offended. That’s what has brought us the outlawing of mentioning Christmas, the ban on mentioning God in schools or in public, the new curriculum that teaches people’s children that being gay is cool (because it offends some people that others don‘t want their children growing up thinking homosexuality is something that is cool and is something you’re born with instead of a choice), the demonizing of anyone with money (since it offends people that there are rich people when they aren’t), and a multitude of other ridiculous laws and regulations that dictate “acceptable” behaviors. It is this supposed “right” to not be offended that started political correctness, and it’s complete and utter crap. It’s destroying this nation.

      People need to get over themselves. I’m offended by stupidity, but as much as I’d like it, I would not approve of a law that slaughtered all stupid people…by the same token, I don’t think they should be protected (if you’re stupid enough to pour hot coffee on your crotch, you deserve to be burned). This “pants on the ground” thing is sickening, and it does need to be solved – at home. It would also help it if people started mercilessly making fun of how stupid they look (screw their feelings) and then they might choose another fashion.

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  • garbagecanlogic
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:55pm

    Let them keep wearing them like this. This way, the cops don’t have to run so fast. Kinda like a woman can run faster with her pants up than a man with his pants down.

    The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
    The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

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  • redsred
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:54pm

    a picture of a couple “wiggers”. emulating convicts and trashy whites and/or blacks is incomprehensible. using the “they’re just teen agers” excuse is simply enabling.

    fines may be excessive punishment, but hours of community service is a great idea.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:56pm

      Loose the word “wiggers”

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    • pahalik
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:13pm

      Don’t worry about losing “wiggers”. It’s fine and very apt. I, for one, don’t care what descriptive labels anyone uses and I am definitely not one of those whites that is scared to be labeled as racist, bigoted or whatever else anyone may want to try to use on me. Sticks and stones….

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  • shirelover
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:51pm

    But, But…. it’s raaaaaaacist!!!

    but, but…it’s taxing the poooooooor!!!

    Sorry, I just had to say/type it, you know you were thinking it!!! :-)

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:51pm

    Good!!! Its a disgusting and stupid practice….Pull your damned pants up!

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:00pm

      “Lee D. Baker, Dean of Academic Affairs at Duke University, states that it is widely believed that sagging was adopted from the United States prison system where belts are prohibited.[3] Belts are sometimes prohibited to keep prisoners from using them as weapons or in committing suicide by hanging themselves.[4][5] The style was later popularized by hip-hop artists in the 1990s.[4] It has since become a symbol of freedom and cultural awareness among many youths[6] or a symbol of their rejection of the values of mainstream society.[7]” wiki

      I though that it also signified that person was a “bottom” (b_tch) in prison. There are so many fashion statement that could be made that would show a “rejection” of society & yet not be sexually vulgar.

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  • MidWestMom
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:48pm

    I agree that this “fashion” trend looks ridiculous and sometimes downright offensive. I understand why many applaud this action. But these laws trouble me. They set a precedent. Today a law mandating what people CAN’T wear – tomorrow a law mandating what people (or a designated group of people) MUST wear?

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    • victorianna
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 1:57am

      I agree with you 100%!

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    • kung
      Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:59pm

      I don’t blame them for not wanting to see nasty unwashed behinds. A line has to be drawn somewhere.

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  • Papa Joe
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:45pm

    $4000.00, hell, here in Chicago we can raise enough to pay off the national debt. with all the morons walking around with their pants below their asses. We need one more obama entitlement, Billions for belts here in America.

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    • motonutt
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:34pm

      @Papa….Are you the sport’s radio Papa….If you are I Love You Man!

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  • Old Truckers
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:45pm

    I would say $200 for the first offense! Then $300 for the second, and the $400 for the third. And so on and so on.
    After they cannot afford their drugs anymore because of the fines, and their minds begin to clear up, they might even turn into a man.

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  • squeaker
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:44pm

    Good job Albany…!!!

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:44pm

    Ummm? A scourge of human decency for sure but I don’t think it should be a crime and punishable with a fine. Now whats next? Mixing checks and stripes together or having bad hair?

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  • trolltrainer
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:44pm

    Man, part of me applauds this one, but…

    The loss of freedom…It is astounding…

    Maybe they could ban rap music?

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 9:50pm

      That’s not a “freedom” worth preserving. All societies can only exist if there are commonly accepted standards of decency. These standards can be argued to be arbitrary. That’s not the point. A minimal ammount of conformity to social norms is necessary to keep the sense of social cohesian in place. Without that we revert to the jungle. If your need for freedom reguires less constraint your are still free…to leave and find a society that will accept YOUR standards…or live on your own

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  • TSUNAMI-22
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:43pm

    Pull your pants up, stupid. Don‘t you realize you’re advertising that you’re willing to take it up the ***?

    Stupid derelicts. Go sell some crack.

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  • krjones
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:41pm

    Personally I wish they would let them wear them down. That way the thugs can’t run fast when the law is chasing them.

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  • tomloy
    Posted on October 3, 2011 at 5:41pm

    Good! Fine away! I have right not to have to see someone else’s underwear!

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    • solaveritas
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 6:22pm

      No, you don’t have any such right. If its not indecent exposure, you have no such right.

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 7:57pm

      @solaveritas

      Is it lawful to walk down the street in your underwear? To me there is not much difference in having to look at half of someones underwear and having to look at just undies alone. I don’t want to see any UNDERwear. I guess the saggy bottom people made the half of your underwear showing is ok law.

      Indecent exposer… That’s in the eye of the beholder, and this could definately qualify as such. Which it did; and is why the police are handing out tickets.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:20pm

      If the community defines the exposure of underwear to be indecent then it IS “indecent exposure”.

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