Are Your Jeans Sagging? Go Directly To Jail!, In Miami, Florida it's now a $300 for saggy pants! Options

[illriginal]

Well in the news today, there was a case where cops went on a feeding frenzy on men and women who wore their pants below their buttocks. Supposedly over 100 citizens were fined $300 each, in Miami.

Then I came across this;

JAMARCUS MARSHALL, a 17-year-old high school sophomore in Mansfield, La., believes that no one should be able to tell him how low to wear his jeans. “It’s up to the person who’s wearing the pants,” he said.

Mr. Marshall’s sagging pants, a style popularized in the early 1990s by hip-hop artists, are becoming a criminal offense in a growing number of communities, including his own.

Starting in Louisiana, an intensifying push by lawmakers has determined pants worn low enough to expose underwear poses a threat to the public, and they have enacted indecency ordinances to stop it.

Since June 11, sagging pants have been against the law in Delcambre, La., a town of 2,231 that is 80 miles southwest of Baton Rouge. The style carries a fine of as much as $500 or up to a six-month sentence. “We used to wear long hair, but I don’t think our trends were ever as bad as sagging,” said Mayor Carol Broussard.

An ordinance in Mansfield, a town of 5,496 near Shreveport, subjects offenders to a fine (as much as $150 plus court costs) or jail time (up to 15 days). Police Chief Don English said the law, which takes effect Sept. 15, will set a good civic image.

Behind the indecency laws may be the real issue — the hip-hop style itself, which critics say is worn as a badge of delinquency, with its distinctive walk conveying thuggish swagger and a disrespect for authority. Also at work is the larger issue of freedom of expression and the questions raised when fashion moves from being merely objectionable to illegal.

Sagging began in prison, where oversized uniforms were issued without belts to prevent suicide and their use as weapons. The style spread through rappers and music videos, from the ghetto to the suburbs and around the world.



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HAHA, sike i wanna see cop's try and arrest someone in miami (carol city) to be exact for wearing sagging pants, everyone would go to jail for busting a cap in a popo's ass.

Larry Harris, Jr., 28, a musician from Miami, who stood in oversize gear outside a hip-hop show in Times Square, denied that prison style was his inspiration. “I think what you have here is people who don’t understand the language of hip-hop,”

^ Very well said.

[illriginal]

HAHA, sike i wanna see cop's try and arrest someone in miami (carol city) to be exact for wearing sagging pants, everyone would go to jail for busting a cap in a popo's ass.
^ Very well said.

They did <,< mama didn't you just read my post? lol... In Miami that caught over 100 citizens with their pants under their buttocks o.O;

EDIT: I just realized I didn't add "Miami" to the end of my sentence on first opening post -,-

[DoubleJ]

They do that shit up here too, and I think it is just gay. Maybe some ladies want to see the martini glasses on my boxers!

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It wasnt in carol city i can GUARANTEE that.
I thought that all this:

Well in the news today, there was a case where cops went on a feeding frenzy on men and women who wore their pants below their buttocks. Supposedly over 100 citizens were fined $300 each.

Then I came across this;

JAMARCUS MARSHALL, a 17-year-old high school sophomore in Mansfield, La., believes that no one should be able to tell him how low to wear his jeans. “It’s up to the person who’s wearing the pants,” he said.

Mr. Marshall’s sagging pants, a style popularized in the early 1990s by hip-hop artists, are becoming a criminal offense in a growing number of communities, including his own.

Starting in Louisiana, an intensifying push by lawmakers has determined pants worn low enough to expose underwear poses a threat to the public, and they have enacted indecency ordinances to stop it.

Since June 11, sagging pants have been against the law in Delcambre, La., a town of 2,231 that is 80 miles southwest of Baton Rouge. The style carries a fine of as much as $500 or up to a six-month sentence. “We used to wear long hair, but I don’t think our trends were ever as bad as sagging,” said Mayor Carol Broussard.

An ordinance in Mansfield, a town of 5,496 near Shreveport, subjects offenders to a fine (as much as $150 plus court costs) or jail time (up to 15 days). Police Chief Don English said the law, which takes effect Sept. 15, will set a good civic image.

Behind the indecency laws may be the real issue — the hip-hop style itself, which critics say is worn as a badge of delinquency, with its distinctive walk conveying thuggish swagger and a disrespect for authority. Also at work is the larger issue of freedom of expression and the questions raised when fashion moves from being merely objectionable to illegal.

Sagging began in prison, where oversized uniforms were issued without belts to prevent suicide and their use as weapons. The style spread through rappers and music videos, from the ghetto to the suburbs and around the world.

was about the guy in Mansfield, La., sorry.

They do that shit up here too, and I think it is just gay. Maybe some ladies want to see the martini glasses on my boxers!

Thats what i'm saying. Isn't this an infringement of an amendment?!

*someone please delete the post below me. it was an accident. sry.

sorry.

Reason for edit: no problem. posts merged -vinity

[illriginal]

They do that shit up here too, and I think it is just gay. Maybe some ladies want to see the martini glasses on my boxers!

I find it pretty stupid too... but then again I like the idea, I'm sick of goin to the movies and seeing a bunch of guys with pants on and belt on them but below their ass. I understand if you wanna pull them down just a tad so show off the rim of your boxers, but for effin' sake, don't put the pants around and below your ass. It's just retarded -,-

Supposedly up in NY they actually lock you up after 3rd fine 0.0;

[DoubleJ]

Eh...whatever people want to do is their choice imho.

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It's great to see what my tax dollars are enforcing.
Is anyone else genuinely bothered by this situation, i mean its fine but once you cross that line into florida...

Go talk to PLIES & RICKROSS, PITBULL, TRICK DADDY florida rappers. See what they tell you.

[superficial]

I think this law should be enforced, seriously. If people wanted to see your ass, they would ask you. It's disgusting seeing kids with their boxers showing (or umm.. something else... ). It's about time they enforced this law, too. I don't get why people would want to do this. I mean, didn't your mother teach you guys some manners to keep your pants up? >__>. I honestly don't even think that sagging is related to hip-hop, at all. That's absolutely ridiculous. Hopefully they enforce this law in San Francisco.

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I think this law should be enforced, seriously. If people wanted to see your ass, they would ask you. It's disgusting seeing kids with their boxers showing (or umm.. something else... ). It's about time they enforced this law, too. I don't get why people would want to do this. I mean, didn't your mother teach you guys some manners to keep your pants up? >__>. I honestly don't even think that sagging is related to hip-hop, at all. That's absolutely ridiculous. Hopefully they enforce this law in San Francisco.

It doesnt bother me because they're enforcing it it bothers me because wtf next thing you know theyre telling you what to wear and how to dress.

[DoubleJ]

I think this law should be enforced, seriously. If people wanted to see your ass, they would ask you. It's disgusting seeing kids with their boxers showing (or umm.. something else... ). It's about time they enforced this law, too. I don't get why people would want to do this. I mean, didn't your mother teach you guys some manners to keep your pants up? >__>. I honestly don't even think that sagging is related to hip-hop, at all. That's absolutely ridiculous. Hopefully they enforce this law in San Francisco.

Agreed! Nobody wants to smell your hot funky ass on a hot summer day. Some of y'all have skid marks too n*gga!

[lkajsfklajskds]

LMFAO.
this is HILARIOUS!
wow, imagine if they did this in nyc! haha, half the city would be in jail

[DoubleJ]

They do do it in the city, where have you been?

[lkajsfklajskds]

They do do it in the city, where have you been?

...REALLY?!

[DoubleJ]

Yep, especially in brooklyn.

[lkajsfklajskds]

Yep, especially in brooklyn.

ohmy, i wasnt informed..
why arent people in my school in jail then?

[Tung]

I like sagging my jeans

[DoubleJ]

[superficial]

It doesnt bother me because they're enforcing it it bothers me because wtf next thing you know theyre telling you what to wear and how to dress.

I don't think the law is that skeptical about what people wear or how they dress. It's just the fact that no one wants to see your ass hanging out or seeing your boxers as a matter of fact. Sagging is just a huge no-no, and I still do not get why this has anything to do with hip-hop, although sagging was "inspired" by hip-hop artists. I think that sagging should just be eliminated from modern day world.

[JokeInsideJoke]

They do that shit up here too, and I think it is just gay. Maybe some ladies want to see the martini glasses on my boxers!

you have martini glasses on your boxers?! rofl :)

there are TONS of people in my school do that.... i think it looks plain stupid on some people... but they shouldnt tell you how to dres and how not to... this IS a free country

[DoubleJ]

Yes. Tommy Hilfiger has nice designs on his boxers!

[Tung]

yew lyke?

[DoubleJ]

Oh yea!!!!

[brooklyneast05]

Yep, especially in brooklyn.

lol, you know they scope out only black guys for it. imo

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they should scope them out too...