Tired Of G-Strings, Lawmaker Tries To Ban Low Pants

[Kadie]

Tired Of G-Strings, Lawmaker Tries To Ban Low Pants

POSTED: 7:29 a.m. EDT April 23, 2004

BATON ROUGE, La. -- How low can you go? A Jefferson Parish, La., lawmaker has filed a bill in the Legislature that would ban people from wearing low-slung pants below the waist, thus "exposing skin or intimate clothing."

State Representative Derrick Shepherd got tired of catching glimpses of boxer shorts and G-strings over the low-slung belt lines of young adults.

His bill would punish anyone caught wearing low-riding pants with a fine of as much as $500 or as many as six months in jail, or both.

An ACLU spokesman said the bill goes too far. He said, "I can think of a lot of workers, plumbers, who are working and expose their buttocks."

http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/3034140/detail.html

[Homer12]

1. Low-slung pants with G-strings are the greatest things...

...ever created.

At my College I can etest that it makes me want to come to school most of the time now.

[MattNC]

amen

n/t

[MattNC]

2. amen

n/t

[Van Helsing]

3. This is a fucking joke...right?

How in the hell would that asshole be able to try and ban peoples' rights to what they want to wear? This whole idea is f'in stupid. Since he wants to ban clothes, he should go on and ban swimsuits at the beach. Heck, bikini tops and bottoms are too intamate and sexy and they flash a lot of skin. No one wants to see that filth. Oh, while we're at it, let's ban women's low cut shirts. I don't want to see womens' cleavage. It's gross and immoral. :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

</sarcasm>

[VelmaD]

5. Don't leave out the boys...

No open-collared shirts...no one wants to see all that nasty chest hair. :P

[Catholic Sensation]

24. well i'd support that

chest hair is disgusting

[TrogL]

8. I heard they wanted to ban Speedos

[VelmaD]

9. I said it yesterday...

when this particular bit of nonsense came up and it bears repeating...I didn't think it was possible for a legislature to do something sillier than the law in Georgie banning genital piercing for women but not men...but this managed it.

[coloradodem2005]

4. I like them. Why would anybody be tired of them?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Self-hating emotional cripples with no imagination or real values

Operating these days as the Republican Party, I believe.

[VelmaD]

7. Damn straight

Preach it. :)

I think it was matcom who posted this yesterday. I'm wearing hip-huggers to work in solidarity with my brothers and sisters in Louisiana. (Well, actually it's because that's all I own but don't tell anybody that.) When I bend over you can probably see my undies and even worse *huge gasp*...my tattoo on my hip. Someone lock me up and throw away the key. :)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. We sexualize clothes too much.

So, you saw someone's underwear. What? Are you going to turn into a rapist, now? This case demonstrates someone's sexual hang-ups being allowed to influence public life. That is never healthy.

[VelmaD]

11. *nodnodnod*

One of the things that most drives me nuts, and has for several years now, is the trend with the young guys of wearing their pants down low and baggy so that you see their undies. But I'm not gonna go agitate for a law to stop it. (My complaint isn't that I can see their drawers, it's that I can't see their butts. I miss tight jeans on guys. *huge sigh*) :)

[coloradodem2005]

12. I wear somewhat tight jeans.

They are not extraordanarily tight but they are not baggy like some guys wear.

[VelmaD]

13. That's better, but I want tight...

skin-tight. Cut-off-your-circulation tight. I-can-tell-your-religious-affiliation tight. :)

[coloradodem2005]

16. I have done that occasionally.

Both in jeans and in jean shorts but it can get uncomforable. It gets especially interesting when I wear holes in certain spots that might be really revealing.

[VelmaD]

17. Hubba

Sorry I missed that. Nothing like ratty torn up blue jeans that just barely keep things legal. :)

[Skittles]

19. YES

YES INDEED; STARSKY AND HUTCH TIGHT :thumbsup:

[VelmaD]

21. *cue 70s porn music*

boom chica wa wa ;)

[Skittles]

26. LOL Velma, did you see that movie Starsky and Hutch

I laughed out loud. WHY are you touching his hair???? :D

and the MUSIC - when they played Afternoon Delight I was silently screaming NO, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Gawd, to get that song stuck in your head. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[VelmaD]

28. I've managed to avoid it...

my guy best friend told me it was awful ane not to waste my money.

My girl best friend just got season 1 of the tv series on dvd though. That is gonna be fun to go back and watch. :)

[Skittles]

40. I was monitoring some major files at work over a weekend

there was a two hour break so I went to the movies and saw the next film showing. It could have been worse! :o

[Skittles]

18. hey Velma

where is there a good selection of hip huggers and not just sizes 0 -4? They'd be right up my alley because I have a thick waist and cannot stand being pinched, but if I get jeans that fit my waist the ass is f***ing huge.

[VelmaD]

20. *blink*

Well, it seems like everywhere I go all I can ever find in jeans any more is hip huggers. The last couple of pairs I bought were either at Target or at Lerner.

[Skittles]

25. Huh

I have a hard time finding them

[VelmaD]

27. Isn't that the way...

it always is. Whatever it is you're looking for is never what they have. I've run into that with sizes. It doesn't matter what size I am...that's the size they don't have. *sigh*

[Debi]

14. What will all the plumbers do?

hehe :evilgrin:

[Mrs. Venation]

15. Hunger, Homelessness, Illiteracy, Poverty, Domestic Violence

unemployment, et. al, and what does this jackass worry about? He has way too much time on his hands and lacks the ability to discern the difference between being offended and being endangered. Sheesh.

[Beer Snob-50]

22. I am sorry..

but this guy has more than time on his hands (and he better clean up afterward).

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

23. we've found this week's #1 idiot conservative!

submit the bastard!

[GOPisEvil]

29. He'll be the 2nd Democrat so enshrined.

After Zell, the traitor, of course.

Edit- the article I read on this yesterday mentioned that the sponsoring legislator is a Democrat. The article linked above does not.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. He seems to want to encourage everyone's worst fears

about Southern Democrats, and for that, he should be pilloried for giving the South a bad name.

[VelmaD]

32. String him up

:evilgrin:

He's stomping on a fine Southern tradition of letting it all hang out. I mean jeezus...what's next? Outlawing "Daisy Duke" shorts and halter tops? The horror. :scared:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

34. Ha! String him up!

With a giant thong, while we all wear arse-baring pants and dance around him.

[VelmaD]

35. Brings up a tough dilemma...

whether to wear really low low-riders...or the leather pants with the ass cut out. ;)

[Kadie]

38. Yep, he is a Dem

here is his info...
http://house.legis.state.la.us/H-Reps/members.asp?ID=87

[NewHampster]

30. That site's name is appropriate The KCRAC hannel.com

[kitkatrose]

33. Heh, in defiance

of that silly law, you could make that your avatar. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

36. Then he'd better not exclude underwear companies....

and TV stations and magazines; because there are ads all over the place that show people wearing nothing but their skivvies.

[amazona]

37. jefferson parish is an embarrassment to human civilization

The tales I can tell. I think they are all crazy.

By the way, for women with small waists, low-rider pants are a lifesaver, the only kind of jeans that fit right. Why can't Mr. Shepherd just shut up and go back to taking pay-offs like every other politico from Jeff Parish? How does he find time to make himself the fashion police?

[Interrobang]

39. Is it yucky? Yes! Should it be illegal? Hell no...

I can't stand seeing *either* guys or girls dangling their skivvies out the back of their pants, but this is a really silly bill. (Around here the women seem to be the worst offenders, and some of those chicks perhaps ought to be restrained by law from wearing thongs, but only because cellulite in a slingshot is a public mischief.)

Just for pity's sake pull your pants up before you sit down, is all I ask...

[DerekG]

41. Agreed...

While I do, in fact, balk at the fashion trends around campus, it's rather stupid to try to legislate the way people dress. Can't this parish wage war on poverty, instead?

Still, I think the sexiest young women are those who actually wear clothes--it gives them a touch of class.

[Book Lover]

42. How much time do I have

between actually having my pants slip down, me noticing, and me hiking up my pants? He's better establish a strict timeframe to ensure equal treatment of those of us who wear baggy-ish pants...