It’s Official! Georgia Mayor Makes Saggin’ Pants A Crime

Posted on September 8th, 2010 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Arrests, Bolitics, F*ck a Thug, News, SMH

saggy Pants

Pants on the ground! Pants on the ground! Lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground! A Mayor out in Dublin, GA agrees and has officially made saggin’ pants a crime.

Mayor Phil Best has decided that dropping trow is an indecent exposure crime and offenders can be fined up to $200 for each offense.

The law would prohibit the wearing of pants or skirts more than three inches below the top of the hips, exposing the skin or undergarments.

Police will be left to enforce the law, but skeptics wonder if they are supposed to run around high school parking lots with tape measures in hand looking for violators of the three-inch rule.

City officials hope that a simple warning for kids to pull up their pants will be sufficient, but we all know that there will be at least one kid (and likely more) who will push the law to its constitutional breaking point by getting arrested and fighting the ticket in court.

Some people are already complaining that the law will be used to target young black males. Well, a quick visit to just about any mall will tell you that young white males model just about everything they see from their black counterparts, including saggin’. So it’s up to the community to make sure that young black boys aren’t the only ones getting pinched for this infraction.

On one hand, this will save a lot of innocent eyes from having to watch the stained up drawls of some prepubescent punk, but on the other hand, it just gives one-time one more reason to harass the youth.


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  • O Brutha!

    Although I agree with the sentiment about the pants how can you tell someone how to dress? Your infringing upon their rights. Cant do it.

  • O Brutha!

    I also wanted to add thats like telling prostitutes that they cant wear what they wear. You may not agree with it but its their rights

  • http://deleted I Am Legend (Allergic 2 Darkies)

    This wont stay law..He did that for publicity im sure they will have alot of lawsuits on their hands soon

  • that damn sh#$ disturber

    it should be interesting to see it enforced. this is one ignorant style and the people who do it just look ghetto and triflin’…

  • tony t

    This saggin’ crap has been going on too long and if the fools can’t stop it themselves then someone needs to crack down.

  • this is good

    I love this rule this needs to be a law world wide. I for one am tired of walking past these young boys and telling them to pull up their pants. I live in Henry County in Ga. and they have a rule in the High Schools where the boys have to have their pants on their waist and shirts tucked in. Love it. I just wish that it was a law outside of school also. They are preparing the students to dress like young men and young ladys. I just wish more would stand up an take notice.

  • Rick

    It’s a good law to place on the books, however, it doesn’t hit the core of the problem. The problem is not the indivisulas wearing the clothes in a disrespectful manner it’s the parents that allow them to venture outside looking like that so if i had the ability to enact such a law I’d fine the parents and you better believe that once they receive the first $200 fine they will address that person living in their home dressing that way.

  • huhsaywhat?

    What is the “fashion statement” when you’re unable to WALK, without pulling up your pants ever 30 seconds?

    I’m all about freedom of expression (including fashion), but these dudes look stupid.

    I’m also tired of seeing a$$es (literally) on the train :-(

  • msbliss

    As a young blk young I would never give some1 who sags any time of my day. Its tacky, unsanitary, & shows ignorance & lack of self confidence. Also, we need to teach our young women Not to encourage this behavior by dating these guys & letting our sons walk out the house like this! No you don’t have to walk around like urkel but you can look cool & have your pants pulled up. Its called maturity & self respect. I wish a man showing his drawers would approach me let alone my daughter!

  • Grammar School

    THIS CAN’T BE A LAW. PEOPLE CAN DRESS HOW THEY WANT TO!
    YOU CAN’T JUST MAKE A LAW LIKE THAT…

    LAWYERS ARE PROBABLY LICKING THEIR CHOPS. BIG MONEY AHEAD FOLKS.

  • Peppa

    I agree with you all, except the one idiot who thinks its a bad law. I also would like to add that in my day the 80s, gus would never allow another dude to see his azz. Now you have all these so-called thugs walking around with their azz out for all men to look and stare at. And then they have the nerve to call other people GAY. LMFAO

  • ENUFF IS ENUFF

    I don’t live in GA but YESSS!!! I’m so tired looking at these men advertising, it’s just sends a message the wrong message, if they research where this trend started they’d pull them up themselves, gay men in prison letting other men know that they’re available, I mean is this the message you wanna send, it certainly not fashion.

  • Peppa

    Yessss enuff is enuff. That is where it came from. So you see, thugs are dumb. They use the “N” word, when it came from a horrible place. And now they are adapting sagging their pants and showing their cheeks, when it came from letting a prisoner know you want some dyck in your cheeks.

  • Rihanna’s Sharp n Pointy…

    How can how someone dress be a crime? I dig the whole concealing of the underwear and skin, but there are people walking around with horns,split-tongues, and full body lizard skin tattoos but that’s ok? I can go to a plastic surgeon an botch my face, grotesquely, into an alien or a cat and sagging pants is illegal? Gtfoh that’s some racist isht.

  • lilbabiphat2004

    I 100% agree! I’m only 24 and i hate to see guys doing that. my nephew does it all the time and when he gets around me i tell him to pull up his pants

  • bx2dadeath

    Big up to the South for making ignorance convenient.

  • STUPIDITY IS A DISEASE

    This has been going on way too long, and it has been taken to another level.

    I am no prude but I feel that black youth have taken it to another level and to be real, it looks ignorant and dumb.

    I find nothing wrong with creating new styles or ways of dress but this was just plain wrong.

    I am tired of seeing it and the real way your supposed to dress come back, maybe our young black men will take more pride in themselves, their environments, their communnities, I really do believe that this form of dress has a lot to do with negative mentalities, they need to go back to school, literally.

  • WHADUP

    excatly why just young black men, skinny jeans are as disgusting as the women’s underware too.
    You got to ban everything….

  • Peppa

    Rihanna, do you ever stop to think sometimes that it is better to argue against ghetto mentality, rather han to argue over a person’s right to be ignorant and ghetto. Some of you just have no clue as to what young people do to the moral fiber of our race. ou’d rather argue their right to be disgusting and ghetto.
    Great Work, keep it up momma.

  • LMAO

    ANOTHER REASON TO LOCK BLACK MEN UP…LMAO

  • Ewwww

    Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • CAN AM

    Yep, you have the right to dress as you wish. Freedom! Keep that in mind when you don’t get employment. This is their wardrobe. Not a suit in sight.

  • Peppa

    LMAO, you are obviously one of the DL Blk men who want to keep showing your butt to men, as a secret way of telling them you are down. You r fooling no one.

  • Sallyone

    Good!!!!!! About time!!!!!

  • Panther

    @lilbabiphat2004……you are so right.I have the same problem with my newphew.Thank god I got girls but they know never bring a boy to meet me with his pants sagging.But after 2 years of talk lol my nephew finally get the picture so he wears a belt lol…..just keep talking to him because it’s even worst to see a 25 year old man to do it.This is one “fad” I hate lol

  • Babbling Fool a.k.a. Babel (Confused tongue, people, land)

    Clothing is an illusion. Know it…

    This is one of the greatest illusions known to “man”- yet not recognized. The man who thinks that the IDEA of clothing is for the sole purpose of covering the “body” is SELF deceived.

    The body is made up of flesh and tissues; it is held together by bones, and it is COVERED by the Skin.
    The skin is the natural cloth of the body; to put a covering over a covering creates a duplicitous state. It creates the illusion of two – one, projected as being good while the other is seen as not good. This is the dichotomy the world continues to wrestle with – the perception of Good and Evil – indeed timeless.

    Whether it is the skin on your nose or buttocks, skin IS skin, the justification that there is “private” skin and “public” skin is nonsensical. Why not cover one eye with a leather patch and leave the other uncovered and go to work? If anyone dares to ask why you covered one eye; just let them know that one eye is “private” and the other is “public”.

    Life is quite simple when you are not carried away by the multitude – be wise for yourself. Albeit, this is how “man” is governed with a Right hand and a Left hand, a continuous state of illusion…

  • http://BOSSIP GAT TURNER

    kan the sistahs be charged for having their a** n chest out too?

    I mean that isn’t modest at all……right?

    Please, this is another attack on blkk youth……….and you so-kalled negros bakk it! Sagging is wakk but a crime???

    GTFOH!!!

  • Mr Fantastic

    THEN PULL THEM UP!!!!! IN JAIL YOU HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD TO HAVE YOU PANTS DOWN AND YOU BUTT IN THE AIR!!!!

  • this world is over

    How you wear your clothes should not be the mayors or any other parts of government choice. Our freedom is being taken away from us little by little. First they are attacking the people society sees as not right. When they are finished with them guess who is left to mess with, the great citizens of this nation! People stop trying to live life for other people and live your own life. This is just the beginning for what is more to come, the government taking over your lives!!!

  • juliemango

    Can the boys still get charged if they r wearing decent undies, lol!!!

  • Niasia

    Your point is flawed…I can easily look at a person and see whether their pants are sagging or not, not really a hard thing to do. How do you look at someone and know they are illegal? How can you look at someone and just go by the way they look to charge them for a crime? If you see the crime in action (pants hanging off their rear ends) I think it is very easy to give them a citation. Someone (since their parents can’t do it) needs to make these young men dress appropriately.

  • Miami Chick

    Damn, you and Peppa read my mind.

  • Trina

    YOU PEOPLE ARE KRAZY. AND IDIOT CAN SEE THAT GUYS SAG THEIR PANTS TO SEND A GAY MESSAGE. THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. THE RAPPERS ARE MOSTLY GAY, AND THEY KOW CUTE GUYS FOLLOW THEIR LEAD. THESE DOWN LOW THUGS ARE ALL DL, AND THEY HAVE THE SECRET CODE THAT WOMEN DON’T NOW ABOUT. IF YOU ARE TRYING TO SAY OTHERWISE, YOU ARE DEFINITELY ONE OF THEM, OR NAIEVE AS HECK

  • Mock Rock Star

    (Throws confetti) There should be a law that all purposely looking raggedy people be jailed as well.

  • Julz

    unconstitutional.

  • Justsouknow

    Young people do not know the true meaning behind sagging pants. It comes from prison culture. It also means your another man’s b@*$$ and property and if more people knew that they wouldn’t be sagging their pants. This nonsense needs to go out of style, quick.

  • shmegma

    lol at black people. yall nuccaz always look ridiculous in public.

  • ViSION

    gauranteed there will be a line of young black kids going down for this..
    where are our african american lawyers, or better yet civil liberty lawyers in general….

  • Sadness

    idk how i feel about this yet. though i think it is really tacky and shameful for people not just black males to wear their pants like this but where do we draw the line? people can wear whatever they want its the country that we live in. if you are going to target one target all but like i said where is the line drawn? will we not be able to wear braids or dreads anymore because someone thinks that it is unfitting? im just saying…

  • SexyBlack81

    DON”T see this happening. The MAYOR is a retard. He need to be focusing on REAL ISSUES.

  • dropped the world on my head

    there has to mps on these. The writing style is the same and the all agree on the same points. Everyone falls for it, by calling them names and this ONE person sits back and enjoys the attention….WOW!!!!! I love it though. So entertaining.

  • ignoranceizbliss

    why why why is the youngn’s pants below his butt cheeks…pause. i hear that in bmore when you wear you pants like that it means you’re AVAILABLE

  • d.

    Totally agree 100%

  • Really???

    That’s right…if parents will not teach there children then the law is stepping up too…we can;t have it both ways. Yes, will the affect blacks, yes, but only if they choose to continue to look reckless…There is nothing wrong with a little sag but really, I don’t need to see all that…thanks for helping clean up part of America…Chicago???

  • http://Bossip.com Missy

    This look came straight from the lovely prison system. Long ago inmates would wear their pants like this to send a message to the other inmates that he was gay…Another message was when the men wor their pants like this it indicated that they were spoken for and was some inmate’s personal B!tch.
    Studies have proven that pple who wear their pants this way for a long time, begin to have problems withing the hip and leg area. Meaning the man has to walk wide-legged to try to keep them up. Leaving men to look like someone stuck a pipe in their azzez. The walk is the same on those who choose to constantly wear hanging pants. It also has other physical side affects. Another stupid thing…So many criminals who try to run away from the Po Po’s get caught. All due to wearing pants that sag. They can’t run or even get a head start. SMDH!!! And last but not least…Isn’t it time to start looking like dignified men. You are the true Kings. The head of the family. Proud Fathers, husbands, sons, nephews, and Uncles. Stop disappointing the elders and make your race and God proud of you. #Thatisall…

  • Black Knight

    @Missy. Couldn’t have said it better myself. You covered all the aspects of what’s wrong with this style. I think the po po did work with the designers to come up with something that would slow niccas down when they are running from the law. Dummies. We are very creative people. We can do better than this.

  • ManchesterUKer

    I don’t see the point in making a law against it but it looks damn stupid when you see grown men walking round with their jeans halfway down their legs

  • ManchesterUKer

    It’s just as gross as a few years ago when it was ‘in’ for women to have their thongs showing over their jeans

  • Who Cares?

    It’s one thing to dress like that in the streets (with jeans), but when they start wearing their suits like that, and going in for job interviews like that; that is when we have a problem. I am a security guard, for a corporation, and one came in for an interview dressed in a suit with the pants all the way down even the suit jacket/blazer could not hide it. It is really getting ridiculous, especially when they are in front of you going up the stairs. That is all you see is their a$$ in your face.

  • Black Knight

    @Who Cares?

    Are you serious? You mean it’s that bad now? Maybe we do need a law. Sometimes you hvae to save people from themselves.

  • PRB

    ATLAS! HOBO THE CLOWN CAN GET HIS JOB BACK. HE’S BEEN UNEMPLOYED SINCE THE EARLY 90′S BECAUSE HIS DRESS APPERENCE WAS STOLEN BY THOUSANDS OF YOUNG MEN ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

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