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Friday, August 24, 2007
Straight poop on pants that droop
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta City Councilman C.T. Martin has proposed a ban on sagging. Sagging pants give a provocative view of one’s boxers beneath —hopefully.
Legally, if there are no boxers underneath, they’re considered union plumbers.
This decision is not popular with most metro police departments. Since “sagging” became popular back in the late 80’s, the number of foot chases where the officer actually caught up with the sagging offender increased by 32.6%. You see, the officer has a built-in disadvantage. Radio, asp baton, gun, magazines, (we don’t call them clips), keys, handcuffs — sometimes two pairs depending on where you work, pocket change and so on make running a bit difficult, and a definite draw back as far as successfully catching the offender.
Thanks to the sagging phenomenon, most sagging offenders traveled only 20-30 feet before falling on their face. Life was good. The only problem for me was stopping. With all that equipment I sometimes overshot the sagger by 15 yards or more.
Sagging is a form of the verb to sag “to drop, to droop, to be moronic;” used as a substantiated adjective on Tuesdays only, it may mean: Sagging (fashion), a fashion trend for wearing pants below the waist to expose one’s awesome boxers, practiced by males who have issues.
How do you enforce it? Who’s going to put the tape measure there to measure the distance as to what violates the city ordinance? Just pull your pants up. It’s going to cost money to have all those “No Sagging” signs put up and the lawyers are going to get involved. And you’ll have after-hour clandestine sagging clubs and closet saggers and sagging-rights rallies …
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