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There goes the groom -- to jail
Times Picayune ^ | May 21, 2009 | Mary Sparacello

Posted on 05/21/2009 3:17:07 PM PDT by BBell

A groom was arrested at his own wedding for disturbing the peace after his nephew violated the dress code with low-riding pants, Kenner police said.

Arrested at the wedding reception Friday were groom John Lucas, 53, of River Ridge, his brother, Walter Lucas, 52, and nephew Samuel Lucas, 19, both of St. Rose.

"We got arrested like 20 minutes after they said 'I do,' " said Samuel Lucas, the 19-year-old with the allegedly low pants. "They spent $1,500 on dance lessons and they didn't even get to dance."

The incident began Friday evening at the Crystal Plantation when the police officer working a detail at the wedding asked the youngest Lucas to pull up pants that were "sagging below his buttocks" to comply with the reception hall's dress code, according to the police report.

"All the kid had to do was pull up his pants," said Leonard Dazet, owner of the Crystal Plantation. Dazet said each bride and groom is required to sign a contract agreeing that guests will abide by the dress code.

Samuel Lucas denied that his pants were so low, though he acknowledged that his belt was loose. "I have beaucoup witnesses. All my cousins and everything said my pants were not sagging," he said.

"His pants were not obscene in any kind of way," father Walter Lucas said, acknowledging that his son's belt wasn't tight enough and that he asked him to pull the pants up whenever he saw that they were a little low. He said he told the officer it was his responsibility as a parent to govern his son's clothes.

But according to the police reports, the teenager's father told the police officer to mind his own business and began arguing with him. When the officer escorted

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: baggypants; crime; groom
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Low-riding pants are no laughing matter.
1 posted on 05/21/2009 3:17:08 PM PDT by BBell
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> “I have beaucoup witnesses. All my cousins and everything said my pants were not sagging,” he said.

Whoa! A French speaking gangsta! Merde!


2 posted on 05/21/2009 3:21:23 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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The delivery of the large tanker of Chlorine was delayed. See what happens!! More Chlorine need in that gene pool. The bride still has time to back out of this situation before it is too late.


3 posted on 05/21/2009 3:21:41 PM PDT by handy old one (It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotlme)
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I think low riding pants are one of the stupidest things I have ever seen but it is not the law’s business how a person wears their pants.


4 posted on 05/21/2009 3:22:10 PM PDT by yarddog
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I just thought of something. Isn’t Kenner where a young lady who likes to go around with no panties and a short skit, is from?


5 posted on 05/21/2009 3:25:50 PM PDT by yarddog
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I guess judges and elected representatives aren't the only ones who think they are above the law (or, in this case, respectful of preset rules). What happens when we all start to feel that way?
6 posted on 05/21/2009 3:26:14 PM PDT by jeffc (They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, hey-hey, ho-ho!)
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> The bride still has time to back out of this situation before it is too late.

(grin!) I bet the last chapter hasn’t been written on that story yet, ay. The bride should be rightly annoyed — I wonder how many months the groom is going to have to sleep on the couch? If it is less than six months he got off lucky.


7 posted on 05/21/2009 3:27:26 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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"They spent $1,500 on dance lessons and they didn't even get to dance."

BWAHAHAHA!

8 posted on 05/21/2009 3:29:27 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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I think low riding pants are one of the stupidest things I have ever seen but it is not the law’s business how a person wears their pants.

Interesting point. In the "old" days, I remember grooms swinging from chandeliers. The damages were paid after the reception. Some guy showing his ass at the wedding seems, small to me.

9 posted on 05/21/2009 3:29:53 PM PDT by ScreamingFist
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To: BBell

In the meantime, another 3,000 terrorists sneaked across the border...

But we must demand the imprisonment of these saggy panted extremists!


10 posted on 05/21/2009 3:30:22 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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"Low-riding pants are no laughing matter."

Neither is excess fat. ;-)


11 posted on 05/21/2009 3:31:10 PM PDT by familyop (combat engineer (combat), National Guard, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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"All the kid had to do was pull up his pants," said Leonard Dazet, owner of the Crystal Plantation. Dazet said each bride and groom is required to sign a contract agreeing that guests will abide by the dress code.

Enforcability of contracts is a fundamental pillar of civilised society. The matter of the contract may be seemingly trivial (a dress code at a private dining establishment), but the contract itself is far from trivial.

12 posted on 05/21/2009 3:32:15 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: BBell
The groom:

The uncle:

The punk:


13 posted on 05/21/2009 3:33:30 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To quote Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack, "Now I know why tigers eat their young."

14 posted on 05/21/2009 3:34:42 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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But a contract is a civil matter; police enforcement is a criminal matter.


15 posted on 05/21/2009 3:35:18 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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Isn’t Kenner where a young lady who likes to go around with no panties and a short skit, is from?

No, she's from Kentwood, on the Mississippi border. Kenner is the location of New Orleans International Airport.

16 posted on 05/21/2009 3:37:00 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: dfwgator

I love the 1979 hair.


17 posted on 05/21/2009 3:37:43 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: yarddog
I think low riding pants are one of the stupidest things I have ever seen but it is not the law’s business how a person wears their pants.

You should read the article. They were at a private club, and had signed a contract agreeing to meet the dresscode. They went neanderthal on the cop who asked the kid to pull up his pants, and ended up in jail.

18 posted on 05/21/2009 3:38:31 PM PDT by dfwright (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left (Eccl. 10:2, NIV))
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Tom Waits has a song that fits this couple....

"Pickin' up after you"

Here comes the bride and there goes the groom
Looks like a hurricane went through this room
Smells like a pool hall, where's my other shoe?
And I'm sick and tired of pickin' up after you

Looks like you spent the night in a trench
And tell me, how long have you been combing Your hair with a wrench?
The roses are dead and the violets are too
And I'm sick and tired of pickin' up after you

19 posted on 05/21/2009 3:38:32 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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Confucius say: “Ugly man with droopy drawers, soon to have hairy crack up.”


20 posted on 05/21/2009 3:39:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama is mentally a child of ten. Just remember that when he makes statements and issues policy.)
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