The Observation Deck

This subject has come up a couple of times. This is how one community is dealing with baggy pants.


Baggy Pants (clicky here)


‘Pull ’em up or pay up’ is new law in Mansfield


MANSFIELD â€â€￾ “Pull ‘em up or pay up.â€Â￾


Anyone caught wearing sagging pants who exposes his or her underwear will be subject to a fine of up to $150 plus court costs, or face up to 15 days in jail.

That is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time (and it seems I've heard a lot of ridiculous things lately).

What a waste of time, money and resources, on fashion victims for pete's sake!

Plumbers beware. There a "crack"down in Mansfield.

Shawn Juris wrote:Plumbers beware. There a "crack"down in Mansfield.

now that is funny



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Shawn Juris wrote:Plumbers beware. There a "crack"down in Mansfield.

plus crack is illegal

,in Australia they call it the coin slot.

Now everybody--- think about the cop who makes the arrest---how do you --- handle ( yech) the perp?

Do not certain folks understand that they are not FASHION FORWARD?

when I think of fashionable, I think of Mansfield. NYC, LA, Milan, London and .... Mansfield.

Shawn Juris wrote:when I think of fashionable, I think of Mansfield. NYC, LA, Milan, London and .... Mansfield.

Don't forget Delcambre...the article cited this town's law as precedence. Be clear, though...they are talking Mansfield, LA, not Mansfield, OH.

I am glad that more traditional crime is so under control in Mansfield that officers can spend time staring at teenager's backsides.

sharon kinsella wrote:That is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time (and it seems I've heard a lot of ridiculous things lately).

What a waste of time, money and resources, on fashion victims for pete's sake!

Why? Why is it ridiculous to expect common decency?

What is ridiculous is that laws are required because some people don't have common decency.

New laws aren't required. What ever happened to indecent exposure?

Joe Ott wrote: New laws aren't required. What ever happened to indecent exposure?

I read the linked article, and while the intent might be baggy pants, it seems to me it could equally apply to middle-aged beer guts that are often on display on Detroit sidewalks.

Richard Cole wrote:

Joe Ott wrote: New laws aren't required. What ever happened to indecent exposure?

I read the linked article, and while the intent might be baggy pants, it seems to me it could equally apply to middle-aged beer guts that are often on display on Detroit sidewalks.

But since beer guts in NE Ohio are very common, wouldn't this be the very definition of "common decency?"

It's a joke. Adults always make a bigger deal out of a short-lived fashion disaster that kids adopt, usually perpetuating it longer than it might have lasted if people either a) ignored or b) laughed at it. I saw a couple teens, one with pants nearly down to knees, crossing the street. I just looked and giggled at him. He hiked them up and kept walking. It looks silly. Treat it as such. Yeesh. A generation from now, if Mansfield LA is still in existence and not swallowed up by the largest exposed underwear faux pas, some law wonk will be going through the various laws and rules and will find this gem and mark it up there with those laws that in some states still endorsed slavery or created a rule that a wife needed to follow the husband by 10 paces.

Seriously, if a single police officer in Lakewood arrested someone for showing a few extra inches of underwear, I will thank the gods that all other crime in the city (you know, acts that actually cause harm to someone or someone's property) has been abolished.

I think that when a guy waddles down the street, because his pants are hanging so low, then he bends over and they come down, which happened in front of Mahalls not long ago, then the guy should be ready to pay for his fashion sense, in front of the people and kids on Madison Ave.

What's a hundred to a cool guy? (no icon for lmao)

Mark Allan Crnolatas

Mark Crnolatas wrote:I think that when a guy waddles down the street, because his pants are hanging so low, then he bends over and they come down, which happened in front of Mahalls not long ago, then the guy should be ready to pay for his fashion sense, in front of the people and kids on Madison Ave.

What's a hundred to a cool guy? (no icon for lmao)

Mark Allan Crnolatas

See, this is where natural consequences come in. Instead of making it "bad" you make it "funny." Teens typically hate being funny (note: unintentionally funny) but love being bad or at least perceived as bad. The scene you described has been played out dozens if not hundreds of times...in Three Stooges, Little Rascals and on up to whatever modern comedy you want to describe. What would reinforce the idea that this is a bad fashion choice: Attention by police or a bunch of little kids laughing at you. Dress and act like a clown (even accidentally) then get treated like a clown. No need to bring the police into it.

Phil

That works like a charm. While driving down Hilliard in Rocky River one day, we saw a young male with drooping pants walking along the street. As we drove by, I beeped the horn and the carload of kids I had pointed and laughed.

You never saw someone pull up his pants so fast!