By Bye Bill of Rights

[kageri]

I saw this teenager at a gas station a while back who basically might as well not have been wearing pants. They were practically around his knees. They should be more specific, though; what if your pants are just kinda saggy and you don't notice? Who notifies the fuzz of these people? "911, what's your emergency?" "Uh, yeah, I've got a guy here with some serious plumber cleavage going on."

Also, I thought from the title that this would be about the bill from Schoolhouse Rock and was disappointed. I'm just sayin.

[scary_dream]

And with that, even if someone DOES call to tattle, what cop is going to leave whatever he's doing and chase down some person with their pants sagging? It seems so trivial... they're having to take time away from fighting crime to hand out tickets to people not wearing belts.

"Excuse me sir, but you seem to be 1/2 inch over the legal limit of exposed buttcrack."

[Partymember]

heh...buttcrack

[Ub3rD4n]

Y'know, sometimes I wish I lived in America, and others, like now, I'm glad I don't. My country has a strict "If it ain't broke, don't fix it, and even if it is, maybe not even then..." policy when it comes to law and stuff of that nature. Which in some ways is a good thing.

[Partymember]

Originally Posted by Ub3rD4n

Y'know, sometimes I wish I lived in America, and others, like now, I'm glad I don't. My country has a strict "If it ain't broke, don't fix it, and even if it is, maybe not even then..." policy when it comes to law and stuff of that nature. Which in some ways is a good thing.

the VAST majority of the land is still cool. Varies from state-to-state a great deal, from region-to-region. Rural areas in upstate NY and Vermont tend to be laid back, you see a lot of old Volswagen buses and hippies mingling with rednecks (like myself) who just want to be left alone. In the cities people tend to be fast-paced and annoying, arrogant, and usually stupid. Avoid Massachusets and New Jersey and the southern half of New York entirely. Out west the land is more wild and less densley populated, the East Coast is the worst part of the nation (although for crime Los Angeles and Washington DC are pretty bad). California is gorgeous but full of undesirables in certain parts.

You should visit. I would love to go to New Zealand myself, gorgeous country from what i hear.

[Ub3rD4n]

So long as you don't mind the rain. And the cold. And the excessive UV radiation. Honestly, though, I still feel a little weird when people talk about the same country as if it was a different one. We pretty much got colonise all at once here, so no states. Just islands.

[jekylljuice]

Oh jeez, I really hope that my mum never finds out about this. True, no such laws are going to affect my right to strut around with my undies showing (at least for the time being), but she'd have a real field day if this ever reaches her ears. She's constantly trying to get me to wear a belt.

Originally Posted by Lynnie

What about the low-rider jeans that are fashionable for women right now? (although, I think they're starting to go out) When they bend over or squat down to pick something up off the floor, everyone behind them catches a glimpse of their underwear, or, uh, not. Again, I think that style is going out, and it's not hard to see why.

Not if I have anything to say about it.

[Partymember]

Originally Posted by Ub3rD4n

So long as you don't mind the rain. And the cold. And the excessive UV radiation. Honestly, though, I still feel a little weird when people talk about the same country as if it was a different one. We pretty much got colonise all at once here, so no states. Just islands.

dude, a little radiation poisoning never hurt anybody

[koosie]

Oooo there was a similar thing here recently when some local authority-employed 'wardens' (uniformed nobodies) warned a fellow that his T-shirt with a slogan including the p-word could cause an offence and that he should cover it or remove it. He refused and obviously there was no sanction the wardens could apply but in theory a police officer could give him an on-the-spot fine if they felt like it. Now if such a t-shirt is illegal than why are they legally sold?

Of course, your average cop has much better things to do than bother with such nonsense but this wasn't true recently when a young teenage girl was given a fixed-penalty-notice for drawing rainbows on the pavement in chalk. The culture of arbitary target-setting was blamed but really.....lawman have you no shame? Protect your community! There are folks being robbed and killed in the cities. Besides chalk disappears when it rains, which it does constantly!

[Bloo2daMacs]

On an unrelated subject, this reminds me of this guy I had the... "pleasure"... of standing behind in line at Taco Bell the other day.

Baggy jeans he was wearing. For some reason he kept taking his shirt off.

So much for "No shirt, no service"