It is just one of many towns that have finally addressed the indecent exposure issue of this different form of crack in the neighborhood.
Most of those town folk are happy that their leaders addressed saggy pants by redefining public nudity. Basically, a previous ban on bare breasts or genitals now includes the wearing of pants below the hips where skin or undergarments are exposed.In the case of Tunica, the Aldermen unanimously approved the measure after receiving a petition signed by a majority of local merchants. Where this has already been addressed, officers may now ask citizens to pull their pants up.
Police have the power to write citations where this is on the books. Should it be used as a tool to engage people on the sidewalk? For the most part, officers throughout the country have no jurisdiction over what constitutes indecent exposure, but the town boards and city councils can. Maybe this ordinance could be beneficial to the "Quality of Life" issue in central Kingston.
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Something I find fascinating is that our kids complain about being cold and then sit on the stone walls in front of the High School and City Hall with just thin underwear between them and the cold stone.
Gives new meaning to brain freeze.
High subjective issue here. Who decides just how low? Aren't the fashion designers going to just subvert this issue into a sales gimmick?
You have a graffiti law on the books that is not enforced. have you seen the old St.Peter's school lately?
I have seen some teens walking in the strangest gait just to hold their pants up. A cross between a shuffle and hop plus their feet point out. How good can that be for their posture or skeletal system?? As a female I find this to be a major turnoff to see some guy's boxers or in one case, his jock strap. Yuk!
It's an anticrime tactic. They can't run away. Foiled by fashion.
What I find ironic is that it took a town in Mississippi to pass a law to make butt-cleavage illegal. After all butt-cleavage is a tradition in the south right up there with eating grits and marrying your cousin!
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