City creates ordinance that makes wearing saggy pants illegal (government, states, gun)

[Longford]

Let's not add to the list of things 'big brother' decides we can and can't do ... without our consent.

[SourD]

Originally Posted by Memphis1979

Well it is Eastern Tennessee.

Its not my city, so its not my problem. If it gets to the state level it will likely be overturned by the courts.

Local ordinances can be made to do this. Just like ordinances that say you can't smoke on public property.

[Memphis1979]

Originally Posted by chucksnee

Duh...you answered your own question.

Underwear is not meant to be seen, bikini's are made to be worn as they are....they were never meant to be an undergarment....no matter how skimpy...

Really?

What law says I can't put on a pair of boxers, a tank top, and flip flops and walk around downtown?

Now, I'd look like a moron, but there is no law against that. Even the Pikeville law can be subverted by not wearing pants at all.

[Spaten_Drinker]

Originally Posted by shiftymh

They should encourage it. Makes it easier for the police to outrun troublemakers.

It also makes it easier to identify the criminals in public.

[Memphis1979]

Originally Posted by SourD

Local ordinances can be made to do this. Just like ordinances that say you can't smoke on public property.

Only if the local ordinance doesn't infringe on the freedom of speech, which is protected under the Tennessee constitution, as well as the federal.

What you wear, and how you wear it, is free speech. If a woman can walk around in a stirng bikini in walmart, then a guy can wear baggy pants.

[Kibby]

Originally Posted by All American NYC

Is this a violation of the 14th Amendment? or good policy to pass in every state?

A little town in Tennessee with a population of 1,600 passes a city ordinance and now we are talking about "every State" instituting this policy? People are completely off the rails when they think this is some sort of National issue. I tend to think there are a lot more important things going on Nationwide than the saggy pants in a town of 1,600 .... but, that's just me.

[LS Jaun]

Originally Posted by shiftymh

They should encourage it. Makes it easier for the police to outrun troublemakers.

For sure! How else do you expect overweight, doughnut eating Law Enforcement officers to catch a Perp.

[chucksnee]

Originally Posted by no1brownsfan

And there is nothing wrong with skimpy bikinis.

micro thong

[SourD]

Originally Posted by Memphis1979

Only if the local ordinance doesn't infringe on the freedom of speech, which is protected under the Tennessee constitution, as well as the federal.

What you wear, and how you wear it, is free speech. If a woman can walk around in a stirng bikini in walmart, then a guy can wear baggy pants.

Then no smoking laws on public property are unconstitutional. Ordinances can be made to address anything they like. If they want to consider saggy pants as indecent exposure, they sure can. If the government can FORCE you to buy something NOTHING is unconstitutional anymore.

[ABQConvict]

A bare rear end is less offensive. Nudity is nudity, but having the proper clothes to cover your underwear (a garment whose sole purpose is absorb your funk), then not using it is just asinine. It is a contrived display of one's butt. That is more offensive to me than someone simply in the nude or a skimpy bathing suit.