Stratford has plenty of potholes to worry about, but as opted to pursue an ordinance that would require police to issue a fine if someone’s pants were low enough to expose “buttocks.” Clearly, the town of Stratford felt that this issue needed more exposure.
Town Councilman Alvin O’Neal, D-2, has proposed a town ordinance that would make it unlawful for people to wear “pants which fall below the buttocks to expose their undergarments,” with a penalty of $250.
The council will try the proposed law on for size when the Ordinance Committee meets for a public hearing on the matter at 6 p.m. in Town Hall.
“I’ve had a lot of senior citizens complain that they were tired of going to the store and seeing people with their pants down below their buttocks,” O’Neil said Friday. “It’s been done in other states, and it specifically deals with the wearing of trousers below the buttocks — you’d have to have your pants almost fully off.”
He added, “We’re not out to get plumbers whose pants creep down while they’re working on your pipes.”
Well, good thing that they are not targeting plumbers, but does this mean they plan to ask what the wearer of saggy pants does for a living? I’m sure the public hearing on this one will be highly entertaining.
source: Connecticut Post, Councilman seeks pants crackdown, JOHN BURGESON, August 26, 2007
Any bets on a young lawyer fighting this on 1st Amendment grounds?
