Georgia Mayor Bans Baggy Pants

CNN:

The mayor of Dublin, Georgia, is expected to sign an ordinance Tuesday that prohibits the wearing of saggy pants. Violators face fines up to $200.

The amendment to the municipality’s indecent exposure ordinance will be put into immediate effect at the city council meeting, Mayor Phil Best told CNN.

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The mayor said after about a year of fielding complaints, he put the city attorney to work researching how other localities have dealt with the derriere dilemma. The result was that council members decided to put exposure due to baggy clothing in the same category as masturbation, fornication and urination in public places.

Now, do old people think that baggy pants are disrespectful? Yes. But what don’t old people think are disrespectful? Old people freak out if you wear a hat or put your elbows on the table or pointing at something. But there haven’t been any laws prohibiting blowing your nose at the table.

Yet there is now a law in place that compares sagging to public masturbation. Is there something wrong with people? I don’t get it. How can you be as offended by seeing a waistband as you are by seeing a man masturbating next to you?

And even though that seems ridiculous, utterly preposterous, it is how these people think. Is sagging rude? Maybe. Maybe it is rude, and maybe you are put off by it, but sorry. Get over it. It’s not the end of the world. Your virgin eyes aren’t going to bleed out of their sockets for seeing a waistband. Minor etiquette has no place in the judicial system.