Anyone else see this item to be discussed by the Selma Town Council? http://bit.ly/1ArH1Q0 Anyone concerned about the slipperly slope this may lead to?
Looks pretty oppressive to me and a big waste of the counsel's time. If they have all this free time sounds like they need to be replaced.
wear your pants up around your waist like they were designed to be worn and not half way down your a$$ and I don't see any problems.
While I don't care to see a person's underwear in public ever, I think this is going overboard. Surely they have more important issues at hand to take care of than this. Sherry
Such an ordinance has been deemed unconstitutional by more than one city/town attrorney when consulted. I would be surprised if any attorney were to suggest otherwise.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/11530365/#TY6sfPoHsQefJzZi.99 Issuing fines to people wearing saggy pants is unconstitutional, Dunn City Attorney P. Tilghman Pope said Tuesday evening as the City Council geared up to vote on a proposed ban of the fashion statement. In July, Mayor Pro Tem Carnell Robinson proposed an ordinance banning saggy pants in an effort to clean up the city's image. Now he plans to lobby the North Carolina General Assembly and local lawmakers to see what can be done about men who wear their pants so low that their underwear is visible.
Yep, it's hard to legislate decency. When the constitution was written, people understood the difference between laws and morals. Anyone walking around with their pants around their knees would have been properly dealt with.
The slippery slope begins when legislating decency and not allowing people to go to Walmart in their Sunday best.
It will be interesting to hear the council's rationale behind this, and why they think it is necessary. If their concern centers around people "exposing" themselves, then (IMHO) this is already covered under existing obscenity laws. If they're trying to "clean up" Selma's image... well... there are a lot better ideas. What a waste of time and effort.
First place my mom and dad always want to go when in town. They love the antique stores. When Jr was little, we would go to downtown Selma on a Saturday, walk around, get ice cream then walk to the train station to wait for a train to go by and see the caboose.
If I owned a business and someone came in looking like that and they were looking for a job I sure as heck would not hire him. I don't care what the law says.
