DON'T GET CAUGHT WITH UR PANTS DOWN: TENNESSEE CITY !!!!!!!!

[Daanyeer]

Don't get caught with your pants down: Tennessee city creates ordinance that makes wearing saggy pants illegal
Officials in Pikeville, Tennessee have voted unanimously for an ordinance banning saggy pants
Anyone wearing pants 'more than three inches below the top of the hips' will be fined for public indecency
Offenders will be fined $25 for the first offense and $50 for each thereafter
Pikeviille joins many other southern cities in outlawing the trend, which has its roots in hip hop culture
'All I know is we just don’t want them running around half-naked on our streets. That’s the bottom line,' said Mayor Phil Cagle
By ALEX GREIG
PUBLISHED: 01:55 GMT, 19 May 2014 | UPDATED: 14:31 GMT, 19 May 2014

Standards - and pants - have been slipping in the Tennessee city of Pikeville, where the mayor has decided things have gotten as low as they can go.
Mayor Phil Cagle is the author of an ordinance that will soon see anyone wearing their pants 'more than three inches below the top of the hips' fined for public indecency.
Pikeville is just the latest place in the U.S. to take issue with where young men position their trousers.

Two in Louisiana, Jefferson Davis and Terrebonne Parish have passed ordinances in recent months banning the public wearing of saggy pants with hefty fines for those who choose not to belt up, and others have followed suit in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi.
So why all the palaver over pants?
'All I know is we just don’t want them running around half-naked on our streets,' Cagle told the Times Free Press.
'That’s the bottom line.'


The City Council of Pikesville unanimously approved the ordinance, which will require anyone guilty letting their pants hang 'more than three inches below the top of the hips (crest of the ilium)' to pay a fine of $25 for the first offense, and $50 for each offense thereafter.

'Myself and the City Council, we wanted an ordinance passed in black and white that our officers know what to tolerate and what not to tolerate,' Cagle told the Times Free Press.
'Now they know what we expect, and they know how to handle it.'
Pikeville's ordinance purports to be for the health of its citizens.
It states that 'there is evidence that indicates that wearing sagging pants is injurious to the health of the wearer as it causes improper gait.'
The trend for wearing the pants very low on the hips may have originated in the U.S. prison system, where inmates are not allowed to wear belts.

The look was adopted by hip hop culture and by the 1990s, young men around the country were wearing their pants perilously low with underpants-clad buttocks on prominent display.
Even the President addressed the trend in 2008: ‘Brothers should pull up their pants,' Obama said.
‘You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What’s wrong with that? Come on. Some people might not want to see your underwear. I’m one of them.’
Civil Liberties groups have in the past argued that such bans are ‘unconstitutional’ under the 14th Amendment, which says no citizen should be deprived of ‘life, liberty or property’ and no person should be denied equal protection of the law.


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[Rabshoole]

[original dervish]

I agree....even though it's racially motivated.
These punks walking around with their asses hanging out.

PS you could use the same argument for walking around bare chested....I doubt they'll be pushing that one.

[Rabshoole]

Depends which state, each differs.

[Basra-]

And this is coming from the South of the United State. The same South that claims the government, or more precisely - Obama is taking their freedom by mandating a health law. Now--what freedom is there to restrict a portion of society-- now, granted--very distasteful society-- but still within their American right. No law should sanction a persons fashion. That is racial profiling law. What is next? Restricting Hijaabs? No miniskirt? I mean-- why is it when it comes to the rights of white men---it is taking your freedom but a bunch of black kids and yes some whites black wanna bes---sag their jeans-- and make law against it? Well, I guess Freedom depends on the color of your skin. The famous saying that I recently GAVE IT to my white co-workers when we were having a friendly debate about American freedom. Virginia governor in the 18th century - Henry who said -- Give us freedom or Give us Death. My white co-workers were cheering-- YEAH YEAH-- and then I said- Well - Henry owned 119 slaves when he uttered those poignant words. (of course, Henry was speaking of freedom from the red coat iron of the British pillaging empire- then)The room was silent.