OT: Keep your pants up if you live in Virginia

This is really a stupid law. I do think it is probably aimed at younger black males, especially since blacks were so prominent in legislating it. I live in the South and I would say where I live is fairly conservative socially. Up in Virginia, on my one visit there, I think I saw about ten people pulled over with jackboot cops searching their cars. These were not just minorities or young people pulled over but older couples and such. I felt fortunate that I was not pulled over for no reason. It seems like a really totalitarian state/commonwealth. In my home state one is lucky to see one state police car for every one hundred miles of highway.

I just do not see the cops really enforcing this law. I think most LEO's are smart enough to see how foolish it is. Even the less intelligent ones surely will not enforce it on females, especially cooperative females.
 
Looks like the system worked this time.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/09/politics/main672682.shtml
Virginia Drops Underpants Bill
RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 10, 2005

[font=Arial, Helvetica, Sans]Virginia lawmakers dropped their droopy-pants bill Thursday after the whole thing became just too embarrassing.

The bill, which would have slapped a $50 fine on people who wear their pants so low that their underwear is visible in "a lewd or indecent manner," passed the state House on Tuesday but was killed by a Senate committee two days later in a unanimous vote.

Republican Sen. Thomas K. Norment said news reports implied that lawmakers were preoccupied with droopy pants.

"I find that an indignation, which dampens my humor," Norment said.

Republican Sen. Kenneth Stolle, the committee chairman, called the bill "a distraction."

The committee hearing drew a standing-room-only crowd that included about 75 government students from Surry County High School.

"If people in Florida can wear bikinis, a little underwear showing isn't going to hurt anybody," 17-year-old Elvyn Shaw said.

The bill's sponsor, Democratic Delegate Algie T. Howell, declined to answer reporters' questions Thursday but issued a statement saying the bill "was in direct response to a number of my constituents who found this to be a very important issue."

He has said the constituents included customers at his barbershop who were offended by exposed underwear. [/font]
 
Bill Martino said:
Keep your pants up if you live in Virginia

Not a bad idea no matter where you live.
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Yup.










Like my ol' grandpa used to say, "Sonny, flies breed disease, keep yours buttoned.":D ;)

Hell of it was he didn't tell me that flies favorite pastimes were making babies.:rolleyes: :grumpy: :mad:
 
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