Public Safety Committee Unsure Of “Baggy Pants” Ordinance
Members of the Rome Public safety committee tackled the sagging question of baggy pants at Tuesday’s regularly scheduled meeting.
Two speakers spoke in favor of some type of ordinance to tackle the issue. Ender Price who spoke to the committee said, “Commissioners may feel this is a trivial issue but people should be able to walk down the street and not see someone else’s behind. She added, this problem has no color, creed or religion. It is a people problem.”
Commissioner Jamie Doss said, “If we create a new law that prohibits baggy pants, where does it stop.” Quite frankly, there are some men that do not need to take their shirts off, do we restrict that?
Commissioner Doss added, “We may not all agree that there should be a law to restrict it, but we all agree that we don’t like it.”
No action was taken about the issue however, Committee members directed Rome Police chief Hubert Smith to check with other municipalities that have an ordinance regarding baggy pants and report back to the committee at the next Public Safety meeting.
Comments (2)
And I should be able to walk down the street and not see stomachs of fat men hanging out from under shirts, or the butt crack of the plumber who comes over to work on my toilet. But that doesn’t mean that it is the place of the police to make this illegal…if we are going to attack something this trivial, let’s talk about the super loud radios that wake my kids up at 2am…or the people who fly through the 4 way stop outside my house where my kids wait for the bus.
The way I see it…if they are showing skin, then they should be arrested for indecent exposure…if it’s their underwear showing, look the other way.
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Let’s not forget the young ladies with extremely low riding pants! or shirts with their midsections exposed.