Posted on 06/16/2011 7:56:04 AM PDT by CedarDave
It took 15-20 minutes to get him off the plane and only after police arrived.
I expect ACLU will file a lawsuit against the airline and the police alleging racial profiling, excessive force, etc. Unless the kid gets rid of his attitude he’s in for a rough life and will be just another guy in the ‘hood complaining he’s a victim of Whitey.
You can stick the “Hood”....
It is if you can’t READ it! LOL
Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young: Pants on the Ground:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VMUQbNpWRc
As long as they have boxers underneath I don’t see any big deal or any crime. Having said that, sometimes you have to go along to get along. It’s a lot easier to pull up your pants than spend the night in the slammer. And being the most innocent dude in the holding cell is not a virtue. But I guess he sure showed them.
Racists against black culture. Cue the little guy shouting “that’s RACIST!”
“I doubt the saggy pants was the reason. And I was right.”
What was the reason? I read the article and only found out that his boxer shorts were exposed. Some passendgers board planes wearing only shorts and no long pants at all. Showing shorts is not indecent exposure.
7th grade teacher here who “jokingly” asks students if they have had an accident - gone dookie - in their drawers ‘cause it certainly looks like they’re hauling around a pile... Usually gets a laugh and the kid pulls up his pants.
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***As long as they have boxers underneath I don’t see any big deal or any crime. ***
If there is an emergency evacuation of the aircraft do you want to be behind this jerk if his pants falls down, trips him, blocks the isle and you are waiting for him to get up, pull his pants to half mast, then waddle off the aircraft? After all, you can’t step on or over him as that would be considered “Whitie holdin down da brother”.
Believe it or not, I had a similar problem when I was a freshman in college.
For some reason, it became fashionable for girls to wear long-johns. Just long-johns with a plaid shirt over it. (and heavy wool socks and hiking boots. It was the beginning of the “Grunge” movement.)
Well, I’d never encountered a more comfortable, cozy manner of dress in my young life. I loved it. I really didn’t see anything wrong with it, especially when this was at the height of the mini-skirt fad. I felt very covered and much more proper and less exposed than many of the girls I was in school with. It even hid my “womanly” shape. In my eyes, there was nothing suggestive about this at all.
Twice I was openly attacked by older people for wearing “underwear” in public. I was completely floored by this and never fully connected with the reasoning behind this. I’m now 40 and I still can’t make the mental leap that long-johns are underwear. They’re heavy cotton clothes.
The funny thing is that I’ve always been a conservative dresser and refused to wear a bikini in public even when I was a fit teen. I never showed cleavage. I’ve never gone without a bra in public or showed a bra strap.
There’s a definite communication gap between older and younger generations.
By your reasoning, disabled people shouldn't be alloowed to fly.
The fashion is stupid and looks ridiculous, but it's every American's right to dress as they wish as long as their 'privates' are covered by cloth. End of story.
If that's the case then also ban everyone with a cane, walker or wheelchair bound. Note, although I said I didn't think his pants were a big deal I also said he should have pulled them up when the airline informed him THEY thought it was a big deal.
“...doesn’t have the decency to not appear in public with his junk barely covered.”
If he was covered, he was not indecent. Every day I see women nbarely covered. Sometimes, I don’t even mind. I bet some women on that flight were barely covered.
I’m a 42 y/o woman, and I’ll STILL pull out a thermal and a nice cozy flannel shirt in the colder months. It may not be the most “girly” look out there, but it’s comfy and it’s warm!
No. I don't. It's your right as a free person to look like an idiot. If your *junk* and butt are covered, then it's no more horrifying than wearing a swimsuit and it's not going to send me to my fainting couch.
“Showing shorts is not indecent exposure.”
It is if your Johnson peeps out the door.
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