Warner Robins bans sagging pants

[Cool Cat Racing]

Maybe you should make sure you don't forget your belt if you are that worried about it.

And I would like to know exactly what people are trying to express by wearing their pants down below their ass??? I guess people have run out of ideas to express themselves in ways that don't make them look like a homeless person who can't afford clothes in the correct size.

Wear pants that fit and you will never have to worry about this law. Wear pants that show your ass, and you will be fined. Indecent exposure is illegal. Exposing too much of your underwear is considered indecent exposure. Get over it. People who sag like that might as well not even wear pants. The part of their body that the pants are supposed to be covering is fully exposed. The only thing the pants cover is the person's legs.

Seriously, someone needs to bring suspenders back.

This arguement could go on forever. People who sag are going to disagree with the law, people who find sagging offensive are going to agree.

I think people with sagging pants look ridiculous. It makes them look retarded and immature. I still hate the law on principle. What about the next law where they tell you that you can't change the wheels on your car or change the exhaust at all, that you must leave it completely stock. Its offensive to the people around you and since they don't like it you can't do it, regardless of whether you feel it is your personal right and freedom of expression. Its the exact same thing, just put in your house not someone else's. Its very easy to sit here and say the law is a good thing when it doesn't apply to you and you agree with what its trying to do. The simple fact is when we as a people allow the government to step on our individual freedoms it becomes precedence and can be used to support other things. If this type of governmental interference is allowed then next they could just as easily say you can't wear a hat in public, or wear certain colors, or certain hair styles. Its all down the same road as this type of law is. That's why I can assure you that it will not be upheld and the city will be forced to repeal it. Unfortunately the only legal way for that to happen is for someone to carry a citation to the state supreme court and it be heard there, until then people will be getting cited for unconstitutional laws. Its really no different than the fifties and people saying black people aren't allowed in certain places, they're not breaking any real laws and should be allowed to wear what they want. Since I'm apparently the only person who will look up what public indecency is to the state here it is. Nowhere does it state that showing your underwear is indecent. By the law you can walk around in your underwear and you're fine. Look at a speedo at the pool or a bikini, both are generally smaller than most underwear and its perfectly acceptable.
16-6-8. (Index)

1-12 (a) A person commits the offense of public indecency when
1-13 he or she performs any of the following acts in a public
1-14 place:

1-15 (1) An act of sexual intercourse;

1-16 (2) A lewd exposure of the sexual organs;

1-17 (3) A lewd appearance in a state of partial or complete
1-18 nudity; or

1-19 (4) A lewd caress or indecent fondling of the body of
1-20 another person.

1-21 (b) A person convicted of the offense of public indecency
1-22 as provided in subsection (a) of this Code section shall
1-23 be punished as for a misdemeanor except as provided in
1-24 subsection (c) of this Code section.

1-25 (c) Upon a third or subsequent conviction for public
1-26 indecency for the violation of paragraph (2), (3), or (4)
1-27 of subsection (a) of this Code section, a person shall be
1-28 guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment
1-29 for not less than one nor more than five years.

All you people who think its the governments place to run other people's lives, to make yours better, will all be the first to cry when the next step is to take away some of your rights because it offends some other group. Don't cry when your wishes now turn on you and you're forced to stop doing something that is clearly legal and allowable, just because someone else bitched enough. This is a dress code and is something individual businesses or the mall has to do, its not up to the government to waste its resources to force people into a standard. That's the beauty of this country, all of us have the right to be ourselves as long as its not physically or emotionally hurting someone else. People with pants hanging down like a homeless retard have just as much of a right to look like an idiot as the wannabe frat boys with popped collars, or the hippies wearing tie dye shirts and cut up khaki's. It's all their choice to look like whatever type of idiot they choose and its not our place to tell them they can't because then we have to accept them telling us we can't wear what we want.