Wearing saggy pants could get expensive in tiny Timmonsville, South Carolina.
A new town ordinance outlaws wearing sagging pants, trousers or shorts that intentionally display a person’s underwear. After initial warnings, third and subsequent offenses carry a fine ranging from $100 to $600.
Town administrator Mary Bines says the ordinance, which also bans nudity, passed the Town Council 5-1 on Tuesday night.
The sagging style has been popular for years among young people and hip-hop artists.
The text of the law says the town about 70 miles east of Columbia wishes to maintain decorum on its streets. Council members have also said the ordinance is aimed at helping young people make better choices.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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i would like to know what keeps the pants from falling to the ground?
doug,
I have wondered about that too!…and I surmise that the pants are supposed to hang on the, ahem, handle…with the macho-cool points given to anyone who doesn’t need to assist with his hand, LOL
doug,
Of course it’s incredibly disgusting…which is the point I guess. And when I’ve seen the spectacle in shopping malls it almost makes me wish I had a long pole with a hook at the end, to give them a little tug from behind LOL! Public humiliation is what they deserve–if they’re even capable of it, which I doubt. I wonder if some brave soul has ever yanked them down! But other people don’t seem to even notice…but they’re probably pretending! I usually shoot a look of contempt in the direction of the offender…which of course he’s too cool to notice, and that’s fine with me.
If you watch the way these fools walk you’ll notice many of them DO NOT walk normal but have a more pronounced leg spread or gait to them which is how they are holding their pants up. I watched one take off from the cops once and he got about 30 feet before his pants fell around his ankles and he hit the ground face first. I thought I’d bust a gut laughing. Even the cop was grinning as he cuffed him.