Memo to Britney: Lose the low-slungs

[Sagacious1420]

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]

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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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Man, you have your own clothing line too? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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Holmes

[Sagacious1420]

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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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Man, you have your own

clothing line too? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

[img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]


Holmes



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Yep! I\'ve been waiting for this kind of contraversial

publicity. I\'m gonna be Rich, Beeeeeyotch ! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[koolking1]

aye yai yai, more censorship.

[Sagacious1420]

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[Mtnjim]

No more \"Whale tail\"? SNIFF [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[DZorro]

</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 [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]


DZorro,

[Sagacious1420]

</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 [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]


DZorro,

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[Holmes]

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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]

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]

Oil!


Holmes

[Elana]

Flood!

[Icarus]

Mardi Gras!

[Holmes]

Boots!


Holmes

[Elana]

Boring!

[Holmes]

Bam!


Holmes

[Elana]

Nasty!

[Icarus]

Cholic!

[Elana]

Parasites!

[Icarus]

Brown-Water!

[Icarus]

[i](and Whitesack)

[Holmes]

Satan?


Holmes

[Icarus]

STOP SMILING AT MEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[Holmes]

No dice.


Holmes

[Elana]

Pancho!

[Icarus]

Lindy!

[Sagacious1420]

Hop!

[Pancho1188]

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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]

Photoshop!


Holmes