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04-15-2013, 06:19 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/14/baggy-pants-law-fine-louisiana_n_3080851.html?utm_hp_ref=style&ir=Style&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish passed an ordinance this week to ban saggy pants in public (http://gawker.com/5994583/louisiana-town-bans-saggy-pants). Their council voted 8-1 to pass the proposition despite divergent opinions in the community.
Offenders will be fined (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/louisiana-town-bans-sagging-pants-article-1.1315857) $50 for the first offense, $100 for the second offense and $100 plus 16 hours of mandatory community service for the third offense. A judge will determine the punishment for any further violations.
WWLTV reports that the local NAACP chapter wholeheartedly agreed with the ban (http://www.wwltv.com/news/lafourche-terrebonne/Terrebonne-Council-outlaws-saggy-pants-202520221.html). Jerome Boykin, the group's president, declared, “There is nothing positive about people wearing saggy pants. This is not a black issue, this is not a white issue, this is a people issue... Young men who were in prison who wanted to have sex with other men would send a signal to another man with his pants below his waist.”
Community resident Ida Moore disagreed at the council meeting: “It’s certainly not the first time elders complained about the social mores and dress habits of young people. But to make laws of governing social differences is a slippery slope to the level of government that we do not allow.”
A fairly red state too.
Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish passed an ordinance this week to ban saggy pants in public (http://gawker.com/5994583/louisiana-town-bans-saggy-pants). Their council voted 8-1 to pass the proposition despite divergent opinions in the community.
Offenders will be fined (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/louisiana-town-bans-sagging-pants-article-1.1315857) $50 for the first offense, $100 for the second offense and $100 plus 16 hours of mandatory community service for the third offense. A judge will determine the punishment for any further violations.
WWLTV reports that the local NAACP chapter wholeheartedly agreed with the ban (http://www.wwltv.com/news/lafourche-terrebonne/Terrebonne-Council-outlaws-saggy-pants-202520221.html). Jerome Boykin, the group's president, declared, “There is nothing positive about people wearing saggy pants. This is not a black issue, this is not a white issue, this is a people issue... Young men who were in prison who wanted to have sex with other men would send a signal to another man with his pants below his waist.”
Community resident Ida Moore disagreed at the council meeting: “It’s certainly not the first time elders complained about the social mores and dress habits of young people. But to make laws of governing social differences is a slippery slope to the level of government that we do not allow.”
A fairly red state too.