Cities Cracking Down on Saggy Pants photo
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - It's a fashion that started in prison, and now the saggy pants craze has come full circle - low-slung street strutting in some cities may soon mean run-ins with the law, including a stint in jail. Proposals to ban saggy pants are starting to ride up in several places. At the...

Personally I think it looks terrible and again, connects peoples' fascination and association with criminals, gangs etc.
Outlawing it might in fact backfire because it would intensify its image as some kind of sign of rebellion.
I dunno... personally I think the glorification of gang culture is screwing up our societies.

It might slow them down when running from the authorities if they have to hold their pants up It may be a good thing?

Legalize it!!!

Better still, if you made it compulsory, the gangstas would give it up tomorrow.

LOL I watch them here do it, always wondered how they stay on because they are just hanging there. o_O

Pssst.... Kiwi, the secret is to have a big "sticky out" bum. Don't tell any one, it's a secret.

Quite honestly, I think the movement started in prisons because it was easier for Bubba to get to all his "customers."

It shows you'd anybody at the drop of a hat. I got a cousin in San Quentin.

In my class if your pants sag and I see your drawers you get two warnings, the third time I email your mom a picture of you, in class. Never seems to escalate past that step for some reason.

LOL. Yeah, that too.


In my school, they have a zero-tolerance policy on pants sagging. Once an administrator gets a glance at you, they grab you aside, yank your pants up, and tie the rope on themselves...Most kids have red marks around their waist after Mr. Berry is through with them. He says it's to help them "recognize and remember where their waist is."