MISSISSIPPI LAWMAKER PROPOSES COUNSELING FOR SAGGY PANTS

Tom Weathersby, a Republican serving in Mississippi’s House of Representatives, has proposed a law that could lead to fines and even counseling for people who wear “sagging” pants, where the underwear is exposed. Weathersby’s bill would make it “unlawful for any person to wear pants, shorts or clothing bottoms that exposes underwear or body parts in an indecent or vulgar manner.” The penalty for a first offense is a warning, and – for juveniles – notifying their parents or guardians. After that, fines begin at $20 for a second offense and run up to $100 for a sixth offense. That sixth offense would also include “psychological and social counseling by the Department of Human Services and the Department of Mental Health.”
* Do the saggy pants get the counseling or the person wearing them?
* I think the second offense ought to include showing the saggy pantser a picture of himself.
* The ultimate penalty for saggy pants will be a court-ordered wedgie.
* Instead of a suspended sentence you’ll just get suspenders.
* Then ultimately you end up in an orange jumpsuit.
* Boy, the erosion of personal freedom in America takes some weird turns, doesn’t it?
* Where does this Tom Weathersby stand on yoga pants?
* Aren’t we past the saggy pants thing? Shouldn’t we be on to trying to legislate man-buns by now?
* Just watch. Someone will sue claiming that saggy pants are an expression of Free Speech.
* Saggy pants, shmaggy pants. What about when people stretch their earlobes and put a hole in the middle to make them look like donuts?