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Sagacious1420
05-13-2004, 10:07 AM
Memo to Britney: Lose the low-slungs
La. lawmakers weigh banning belly-baring, bottom-peeking
pants
Britney Spears during her appearance on MTV TRL UK in London, early May.
By Bethany Thomas
Reporter
NBC
News
Updated: 8:22 a.m. ET May 13, 2004DALLAS - Memo to Britney Spears: Make sure to forget those low-rise jeans
next time you fly home to Louisiana.
And Ludacris, why don’t you pull up your pants and cinch them with a
belt before you take the stage in Baton Rouge.
Otherwise, you might both get a ticket.
That’s what the
Louisiana House Criminal Justice Committee approved last week. The new proposed bill would crack down on anyone who
wears low-slinging, pants-sagging, belly-baring, underwear-peeking pants. It faces the full State House sometime
within the next two months.
\"Baggy Pants Bill\"
House Bill 1626, also known as the “Baggy Pants Bill”
states: “It shall be unlawful for any person to appear in public wearing his pants below his waist and thereby
exposing his skin or intimate clothing.”
State Representative Derrick Shepherd’s bill would make any violator
subject to three eight-hour days of community service and up to a fine of $175.
That means the local teens on the
basketball court are going to have to keep their pants up, too.
Shepherd told the New Orleans Times-Picayune,
\"There\'s a way to shoot hoops professionally. You don\'t have to shoot hoops with your pants below your
waist.\"
He thinks the waistline location might even improve their behavior.
\"Hopefully, if we pull up
their pants,\" he said, \"we can lift their minds while we\'re at it.\"
Local councilman Glenn Green said,
“It’s getting to the point where these young men and women are just getting offensive with their underwear showing,
the cracks between their buttocks showing…their g-strings showing. It’s hard to legislate morality; you can’t really
do that. It just comes to a point of plain old bad taste and it’s just gotta stop.”
Executive director of the
American Civil Liberties Union\'s Louisiana chapter, Joe Cook, does not think the bill will likely pass the full
House floor. He said the Supreme Court doesn’t usually prohibit obscene behavior under the First Amendment.
“It
infringes on young people’s freedom of expression and their privacy rights. The zone of privacy they have and the
right to be left alone,” Cook said.
So, what about your local plumber?
\"What about a woman who is wearing a
bathing suit under her garment or she has something like a sarong wrapped around her and it\'s below her waist?\"
Cook said. \"I can think of a lot of workers, plumbers, who are working and expose their buttocks and the beginning
of the crack of their anus.\"
The Times-Picayune notes that this is the fourth effort in five years to
legislate jeans-wearing etiquette state-wide in Louisiana.
$500 penalty in one small town
But, one small town
has been mandating it locally for years.
In the town of Opelousas, wearing saggy pants is considered a
misdemeanor and carries a maximum penalty of a $500 fine and up to 6 months in prison.
Captain Ronnie Trahan
with the Opelousas Police Department said, “The problem that we’re having is not with individuals exposing their
underwear. We had a problem with individuals exposing more than their underwear.”
And down the bayou in the town
of Westwego, a city councilman in 2002 attempted to bar low-riding jeans from public buildings. (The city attorney
warned the city would interfere with freedom of speech and would not meet federal standards, so the councilman later
ditched the proposal.)
As for Britney and Ludacris, they may be safe to hang in Louisiana for a few more days.
The full Louisiana State House hasn’t passed the bill yet. They plan to take it up sometime before the end of
session on June 21.
Bethany Thomas is the NBC News Dallas Bureau coordinator.
The latest poll results
are in:
Live Vote
Should low-slung jeans be banned? * 20599 responses
Yes; this style is
offensive
33%
No; it\'s freedom of expression
22%
I don\'t care; seems there are more important
things to worry about
44%
I have no opinion
1%
Not a scientifically valid survey.
Holmes
05-13-2004, 10:13 AM
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wearing saggy pants is considered a misdemeanor and
carries a maximum penalty of a $500 fine and up to 6 months in prison.
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class=\"post\">
Man, you have your own clothing line too? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Holmes
Sagacious1420
05-13-2004, 10:22 AM
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wearing saggy pants is considered a misdemeanor and carries a maximum penalty
of a $500 fine and up to 6 months in prison.
<hr /></blockquote><font class=\"post\">
Man, you have your own
clothing line too? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Holmes
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Yep! I\'ve been waiting for this kind of contraversial
publicity. I\'m gonna be Rich, Beeeeeyotch ! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
koolking1
05-13-2004, 10:32 AM
aye yai yai, more censorship.
Sagacious1420
05-13-2004, 10:37 AM
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TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=\"pollname\" VALUE=\"1084469816Sagacious1420\">
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banned?
<input type=\"radio\" name=\"option\" value=\"1\" />Yes, I find them very arousing and I like
to be aroused
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don\'t like to be aroused
<input type=\"radio\" name=\"option\" value=\"3\" />I Don\'t Care, I\'m too
busy creating the world\'s greatest megamix to drop Britney\'s low-slung jeans
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<input type=\"radio\" name=\"option\" value=\"5\"
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Mtnjim
05-13-2004, 10:39 AM
No more \"Whale tail\"? SNIFF /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
DZorro
05-13-2004, 10:47 AM
</font><blockquote><font class=\"small\">Quote:</font><hr />
Memo to Britney: Lose the low-slungs
La. lawmakers
weigh banning belly-baring, bottom-peeking pants
Britney Spears during her appearance on MTV TRL UK in London,
early May.
By Bethany Thomas
Reporter
NBC News
Updated: 8:22 a.m. ET May 13, 2004DALLAS - Memo to Britney
Spears: Make sure to forget those low-rise jeans next time you fly home to Louisiana.
And Ludacris, why
don’t you pull up your pants and cinch them with a belt before you take the stage in Baton Rouge.
Otherwise, you
might both get a ticket.
That’s what the Louisiana House Criminal Justice Committee approved last week. The new
proposed bill would crack down on anyone who wears low-slinging, pants-sagging, belly-baring, underwear-peeking
pants. It faces the full State House sometime within the next two months.
\"Baggy Pants Bill\"
House Bill
1626, also known as the “Baggy Pants Bill” states: “It shall be unlawful for any person to appear in public wearing
his pants below his waist and thereby exposing his skin or intimate clothing.”
State Representative Derrick
Shepherd’s bill would make any violator subject to three eight-hour days of community service and up to a fine of
$175.
That means the local teens on the basketball court are going to have to keep their pants up,
too.
Shepherd told the New Orleans Times-Picayune, \"There\'s a way to shoot hoops professionally. You
don\'t have to shoot hoops with your pants below your waist.\"
He thinks the waistline location might even
improve their behavior.
\"Hopefully, if we pull up their pants,\" he said, \"we can lift their minds while
we\'re at it.\"
Local councilman Glenn Green said, “It’s getting to the point where these young men and women
are just getting offensive with their underwear showing, the cracks between their buttocks showing…their g-strings
showing. It’s hard to legislate morality; you can’t really do that. It just comes to a point of plain old bad taste
and it’s just gotta stop.”
Executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union\'s Louisiana chapter, Joe
Cook, does not think the bill will likely pass the full House floor. He said the Supreme Court doesn’t usually
prohibit obscene behavior under the First Amendment.
“It infringes on young people’s freedom of expression and
their privacy rights. The zone of privacy they have and the right to be left alone,” Cook said.
So, what about
your local plumber?
\"What about a woman who is wearing a bathing suit under her garment or she has something
like a sarong wrapped around her and it\'s below her waist?\" Cook said. \"I can think of a lot of workers,
plumbers, who are working and expose their buttocks and the beginning of the crack of their anus.\"
The
Times-Picayune notes that this is the fourth effort in five years to legislate jeans-wearing etiquette state-wide in
Louisiana.
$500 penalty in one small town
But, one small town has been mandating it locally for years.
In the
town of Opelousas, wearing saggy pants is considered a misdemeanor and carries a maximum penalty of a $500 fine and
up to 6 months in prison.
Captain Ronnie Trahan with the Opelousas Police Department said, “The problem that
we’re having is not with individuals exposing their underwear. We had a problem with individuals exposing more than
their underwear.”
And down the bayou in the town of Westwego, a city councilman in 2002 attempted to bar
low-riding jeans from public buildings. (The city attorney warned the city would interfere with freedom of speech
and would not meet federal standards, so the councilman later ditched the proposal.)
As for Britney and Ludacris,
they may be safe to hang in Louisiana for a few more days. The full Louisiana State House hasn’t passed the bill
yet. They plan to take it up sometime before the end of session on June 21.
Bethany Thomas is the NBC News Dallas
Bureau coordinator.
The latest poll results are in:
Live Vote
Should low-slung jeans be banned?
* 20599 responses
Yes; this style is offensive
33%
No; it\'s freedom of expression
22%
I don\'t care; seems there are more important things to worry about
44%
I have no opinion
1%
Not a
scientifically valid survey.
<hr /></blockquote><font class=\"post\">
Man
don\'t these congress people have anthing better to do with their times?? sheeszz banning this banning that, man
we should ban them whyle where at it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
DZorro,
Sagacious1420
05-13-2004, 10:49 AM
</font><blockquote><font class=\"small\">Quote:</font><hr />
</font><blockquote><font
class=\"small\">Quote:</font><hr />
Memo to Britney: Lose the low-slungs
La. lawmakers weigh banning
belly-baring, bottom-peeking pants
Britney Spears during her appearance on MTV TRL UK in London, early May.
By
Bethany Thomas
Reporter
NBC News
Updated: 8:22 a.m. ET May 13, 2004DALLAS - Memo to Britney Spears: Make sure to
forget those low-rise jeans next time you fly home to Louisiana.
And Ludacris, why don’t you pull up your
pants and cinch them with a belt before you take the stage in Baton Rouge.
Otherwise, you might both get a
ticket.
That’s what the Louisiana House Criminal Justice Committee approved last week. The new proposed bill
would crack down on anyone who wears low-slinging, pants-sagging, belly-baring, underwear-peeking pants. It faces
the full State House sometime within the next two months.
\"Baggy Pants Bill\"
House Bill 1626, also known as
the “Baggy Pants Bill” states: “It shall be unlawful for any person to appear in public wearing his pants below his
waist and thereby exposing his skin or intimate clothing.”
State Representative Derrick Shepherd’s bill would
make any violator subject to three eight-hour days of community service and up to a fine of $175.
That means the
local teens on the basketball court are going to have to keep their pants up, too.
Shepherd told the New Orleans
Times-Picayune, \"There\'s a way to shoot hoops professionally. You don\'t have to shoot hoops with your pants
below your waist.\"
He thinks the waistline location might even improve their behavior.
\"Hopefully, if
we pull up their pants,\" he said, \"we can lift their minds while we\'re at it.\"
Local councilman Glenn
Green said, “It’s getting to the point where these young men and women are just getting offensive with their
underwear showing, the cracks between their buttocks showing…their g-strings showing. It’s hard to legislate
morality; you can’t really do that. It just comes to a point of plain old bad taste and it’s just gotta
stop.”
Executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union\'s Louisiana chapter, Joe Cook, does not think
the bill will likely pass the full House floor. He said the Supreme Court doesn’t usually prohibit obscene behavior
under the First Amendment.
“It infringes on young people’s freedom of expression and their privacy rights. The
zone of privacy they have and the right to be left alone,” Cook said.
So, what about your local
plumber?
\"What about a woman who is wearing a bathing suit under her garment or she has something like a sarong
wrapped around her and it\'s below her waist?\" Cook said. \"I can think of a lot of workers, plumbers, who are
working and expose their buttocks and the beginning of the crack of their anus.\"
The Times-Picayune notes that
this is the fourth effort in five years to legislate jeans-wearing etiquette state-wide in Louisiana.
$500
penalty in one small town
But, one small town has been mandating it locally for years.
In the town of Opelousas,
wearing saggy pants is considered a misdemeanor and carries a maximum penalty of a $500 fine and up to 6 months in
prison.
Captain Ronnie Trahan with the Opelousas Police Department said, “The problem that we’re having is not
with individuals exposing their underwear. We had a problem with individuals exposing more than their
underwear.”
And down the bayou in the town of Westwego, a city councilman in 2002 attempted to bar low-riding
jeans from public buildings. (The city attorney warned the city would interfere with freedom of speech and would
not meet federal standards, so the councilman later ditched the proposal.)
As for Britney and Ludacris, they may
be safe to hang in Louisiana for a few more days. The full Louisiana State House hasn’t passed the bill yet. They
plan to take it up sometime before the end of session on June 21.
Bethany Thomas is the NBC News Dallas Bureau
coordinator.
The latest poll results are in:
Live Vote
Should low-slung jeans be banned? *
20599 responses
Yes; this style is offensive
33%
No; it\'s freedom of expression
22%
I
don\'t care; seems there are more important things to worry about
44%
I have no opinion
1%
Not a
scientifically valid survey.
<hr /></blockquote><font class=\"post\">
Man
don\'t these congress people have anthing better to do with their times?? sheeszz banning this banning that, man
we should ban them whyle where at it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
DZorro,
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Holmes
05-13-2004, 01:47 PM
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Man don\'t these congress people have anthing
better to do with their times??
<hr /></blockquote><font class=\"post\">
Wild guess: \"Yes.\"
Holmes
Pancho1188
05-13-2004, 01:53 PM
Well, the federal government could spend more of that time convincing itself that it should attack more
countries...
...it could worry about whether or not to give homosexuals the right to tax benefits and a right to
be miserable...
...the state and local governments could keep voting on more innovative ways to destroy the
public school system...
Yeah, there are plenty of useful things they could be doing...
Holmes
05-13-2004, 01:59 PM
Oil!
Holmes
Elana
05-13-2004, 02:08 PM
Flood!
Icarus
05-13-2004, 02:30 PM
Mardi Gras!
Holmes
05-13-2004, 02:53 PM
Boots!
Holmes
Elana
05-13-2004, 03:00 PM
Boring!
Holmes
05-13-2004, 03:02 PM
Bam!
Holmes
Elana
05-13-2004, 03:04 PM
Nasty!
Icarus
05-13-2004, 04:35 PM
Cholic!
Elana
05-13-2004, 04:49 PM
Parasites!
Icarus
05-13-2004, 04:52 PM
Brown-Water!
Icarus
05-13-2004, 04:53 PM
[i](and Whitesack)
Holmes
05-13-2004, 04:58 PM
Satan?
Holmes
Icarus
05-13-2004, 04:59 PM
STOP SMILING AT MEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Holmes
05-13-2004, 05:12 PM
No dice.
Holmes
Elana
05-13-2004, 05:20 PM
Pancho!
Icarus
05-13-2004, 05:51 PM
Lindy!
Sagacious1420
05-13-2004, 07:30 PM
Hop!
Pancho1188
05-14-2004, 04:25 AM
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Pancho!
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class=\"post\">
That\'s the first time a girl has been screaming my name in a while...
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Holmes
05-14-2004, 04:31 AM
Photoshop!
Holmes
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