THE SAG STOPS HERE!

It looks like I'm not the only one who gets annoyed when I see people walking around with pants that hang down to their ankles. I mean, seriously, when I'm out with my fiancée, why do I have to see some kid's underwear and ass showing because his pants fall below his butt line? It's a look that's been going on since the 90s and I still just don't get it. Baggy pants are one thing, but this is just ridiculous. Do girls actually find this sexy? 

Anyway, a Louisiana town wants to prohibit people from sagging, or wearing pants below the waist and exposing their underwear. The ban would set a high price on low pants, hitting violators with a series of fines ranging from $50 for the first offense, $100 for the second and $100 plus 16 hours of community service for each offense after that. The Terrebonne Parish Town Council voted a hefty 8 to 1 to pass the ordinance, which the parish's president is expected to sign into law. The ordinance reads, "Appearing in public view while exposing one's skin or undergarments below the waist is contrary to safety, health, peace and good order of the parish and the general welfare." Hallelujah! Why can't this ban be nationwide? It just looks so stupid when people walk around like this. I mean I'm not a judgmental person at all, but when I have to see your sagging pants while I'm eating at a restaurant, there's a problem!

Before the vote, Jerome Boykin, president of the local chapter of the NAACP, argued in favor of the sagging ban saying, "There is nothing positive about people wearing saggy pants. This is not a black issue, this is not a white issue, this is a people issue!" One resident feels that the government should not have the power to ban sagging even though it looks "foolish, unattractive and unbecoming." The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana sent a letter to the council saying that the ban is unconstitutional. The letter read, "To ban a particular clothing style would violate a liberty interest guaranteed under the 14th Amendment. The government does not belong in the business of telling people what to wear. Nor does it have the right to use clothing as a pretext to engage in otherwise unlawful stops of innocent people." Let me start by first saying that people who wear their pants that low, are usually not 'innocent people'. I don't think the government here is trying to tell people what to wear, I think that the government is asking their citizens to stop looking so disgusting. I think the law should be similar to that of indecent exposure because their underwear is being exposed for the entire world to see and that it pretty indecent. 

Sagging is also under attack in New York. A few years ago, State Senator Eric Adams unveiled a series of billboards throughout Brooklyn that read, "Raise your pants, raise your image!" He said, "This sagging pants culture represents an immature disregard for the basic civility, courtesy, and responsibility that our young men should display." President Obama's even chimed in on the controversy saying that he does not approve of sagging, but thinks the efforts to ban the practice are a waste of time. Well, so is his presidency, but that's a whole other issue. Yes, there are other problems that our government officials should be more concerned with and maybe it really is none of our business to tell people how to dress, but it would sure be nice to not have to see someone's underwear and ass staring at me while I walk behind them.