Fashion crime: Florida man fined for wearing saggy pants
Filed under: Style in the News
(Think that's bad? We found the Worst Sagging Offenders of All Time - click the photo to see the horror!)
When you get dressed in the morning, do you check through your city's penal code to make sure your outfit is in accordance with all laws and ordinances? Well, maybe you should. As you've probably heard, some cities are trying to legislate fashion by trumping up ridiculous laws as if they're writing the local high school's student dress code. We say: this is still America isn't it? Land of the free?
Apparently not if you happen to live in Riviera Beach, Florida, where cops issued Kenneth Smith a ticket for "exposure of undergarments in public." Evidently, the cops were investigating a suspected drug dealer when they noticed Kenneth hanging out next to the suspect's Impala. One of the officers noticed that his blue and white boxers were visible "approximately two inches below his waist" -- an obvious threat to society.
Kenneth faces up to a $150 fine as a first time offender, and if cops ever want to use this lame pretense to dettain him again -- he could face up to 30 days in jail. Ridiculous. Look, we're not big fans of sagging, but if sagging is illegal, then why aren't Speedos? Oh, that's right -- they are.
Paula 9-05-2008 @ 2:23PM
Sorry but a man exposing his posterior accidently or on purpose in public is offensive to me. Overweight men (and women) need to buy cloths that fit and men need to wear longer shirts to cover up that mess. Males that like to wear their pants down around their kneecaps are not cool. It looks stupid whe they have to retrieve their wallets from down around their ankles. Why bother wearing pants at all?
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Kody 9-10-2008 @ 10:33PM
Paula, if you're that easily offended maybe you should stay in your home or here is an idea DON'T LOOK. Do you think I enjoy looking at random guy's asses? No of course not, but I don't have to look and I choose not to, it definitely doesn't effect my day enough to where i would call myself offended. What is the point of being offended anyways? What does it accomplish besides letting everyone know that you have something to complain about? I don't need people like you telling me what I can and cannot wear and I don't think anyone else does either.
While we're at it let's not let people wear certain fabrics since some people may be allergic and MAY somehow touch it. Or maybe we should make perfume illegal because some people might be offended by the odor.They are your eyes and you can choose what to aim them at. Seriously if underwear offends you I wish I could see how you react in the face of a real problem. You're a trivial person and the world would be much better off without your type.
conservor101 9-05-2008 @ 2:31PM
A threat to society? Maybe not, but I'm sure sick of the saggy fashion. They are getting below the butt now, and some of the fools are wearing jockey shorts! Anyhow, if it's the law there, buck up and shut up and get it changed if you wanna show your a**.
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Lil Tomboi 9-05-2008 @ 2:32PM
For one Paula, males, and i'm sure u mean teenagers, don't wear pants around their kneecaps. Lower hips maybe. And who cares if it looks stupid to u, or anyone for that matter. It's their body! And it's the style for kids. Just like kids in the 50's, 60's 70's, and so on, had their own style! Now this fool in this pic, i'm sure he felt the air on his ass, and just didn't want to adjust his too small pants!
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JmpnGHosaFat 9-05-2008 @ 3:16PM
So you like the clown look. That's ok. You'll grow up one day. I hope so anyway. Oh and it's NOT just "teenagers" who wear this clown wear. There are guys in their 30's where I work who wear them. Makes me wonder what kind of mentality they are going to have in their 40's. Sad.
kelly 9-05-2008 @ 2:41PM
around here you can go to jail for 14 days i know of someone who has.
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WAK 9-05-2008 @ 2:47PM
If the people that think baggy pants are "cool" knew where they originated from, they would probably re-think their dress style. Baggy pants originated in the prison system: If an inmate wanted to have sex with another inmate he would loosen his pants to expose his undergarments so the other inmates would know he was "available". Wow...some fad huh?
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nancy 9-05-2008 @ 2:53PM
So if it's a woman in a bikini with a great figure no one objects. But a man who bends over and you see the crack of his ass, my tax dollars are wasted on putting him in jail. What is going on here.
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chris 9-05-2008 @ 2:57PM
Yet another idiotic trend started by rappers. Another one is their actual "muzac"
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SULLY 9-05-2008 @ 3:01PM
This makes me outraged!!! Exposed undergarments??? I can see if he
wasn't wearing underwear, but an undergarment still covers you up!
What is this country coming to? I mean a "nudist" can walk around a
college campus butt ass naked, wearing only a backpack, but this
guy's pants were a little low & he gets hit with a $150 fine!!!
Obviously this isn't the land of the free!!! It's becoming the land
of BULL$H!T laws!!! I mean seriously, what's next? Think about this
people, we need to take our country back...
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Owen 9-05-2008 @ 3:08PM
This certainly gives new meaning to America's crack problem.
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Michele 9-05-2008 @ 3:15PM
Soooo...it's in thing to wear your pants and underpants hanging down past your ass?
What it is in reality and it's not the in thing... to the general public. It's DISGUSTING!!!!!
Men get away with not having to wear shirts in public.
But if a woman tries? It's illegal!
Pull the pants up, buddy, no one wants to see it. You nay think you have rights and that you are expressing your own individuality.
You are in the public eye and look like a fool.
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Catherine 9-05-2008 @ 3:17PM
Why must I see the underware or lack of on every young boy or girl. It is not necessary. Pull your pants up or buy some that fit. How about wearing a belt.
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Dorothea 9-05-2008 @ 3:20PM
Girl you are soooooooooooooooooooo right!!!!!!!!!!
I am so over that whole moping thing and I think it ought to be a crime. What you do at home behind your walls or fence thats your business, but when it comes to including me out in public, watch out because I will yell "Pull your pants up for God sake!"
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Mike Hunt 9-05-2008 @ 3:27PM
I watched three chimps get chased by the police and they had to keep pulling their pants up when they was running the cops were laughing at them while chasing them because how stupid do you have to be to be a crook and have to hold your pants up ??? well there you go now you know !
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priceless 9-05-2008 @ 3:31PM
I see were my money is going.....to the fashion police to put people in jail for their fashion mistakes. I really don't see the problem. So what if young people found a fad that makes them happy. Thats like banning all the fashion fads from the 50's through the 90's. And saying its just another fad started by rap music, but wake up, more preps are sagging there pants more then ever. It just really makes me mad that the govt can't find some other issues to raise in congress. but instead they are worrying about if some lil boy or GIRL is sagging their pants. And black folks can not just say its just them being attacked on this issue, because I have white friends that have gotten tickets for it. This issue so needs to go off the books, FAST!!!
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CW 9-05-2008 @ 3:34PM
I'm 17. There is nothing cool about baggy pants. If you think that is the "fashion" today, you are a bigger fool than I thought you were.
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stephanie 9-05-2008 @ 3:47PM
As a teacher and as someone who went to school years ago with classmates sagging their pants, I have to say that that is one style that needs to be banned! Teens must realize that as they get older, it looks shameful and stupid to see someone with their pants pulled down, showing a little underwear. What do these fools expect when they get out into the real world? That employers will look at their prison style and say, "oh yeah, I want to hire them!" Right! And I still don't understand why these fools want to look like somebody's bitch with their pants down. That's where the style came from, in prison. It indicates someone is doing you in the butt! And this style is embraced by so called fashion forward teens, give me a break! Are they gonna wear saggy pants on their wedding day or to church or when they take their kids to school? Pull your pants up, people! Men's butts do look a lot better when you can see them shaped in their jeans.
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Leena 9-05-2008 @ 3:48PM
Do any of these people realize wear this style came from.... This style came from the prison in the 80's. The gay prisoners use to wear there pants sagging so others would know they were gay.....
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nunyabizness 9-05-2008 @ 4:01PM
Young kids ..Older teens...Young Adults should look up where this Trend started ...sagging started in PRISON !! It is the way for a prisoner to advertise that they are available for a boyfriend !! Now do you still want to wear your pants like that?
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