Posted on 06/24/2006 5:06:19 PM PDT by Tall_Texan
Cops Say Loose, Baggy Jeans Trip Up Many a Thief;
'Hey, Dude, Buy a Belt'
One sunny afternoon in January, Vicki Chandler, a 55-year-old underwriting associate at Cigna HealthCare in Chattanooga, Tenn., was walking to her car when a teenager in loose khaki pants approached her, pointed to her pocketbook and said, "I need that." As she recounts the incident, he snatched the purse and took off.
But then he ran into trouble. As he ran, his loose trousers slipped down below his hips. As he reached down to hold them up, the teen was forced to throw the purse aside.
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They're just keepin' it rill...
They can't keep their mouths shut, either. Bagging criminals like this punk is hillariously easy.
There was an article on FR (Detroit), where a bunch of them went to run from the cops, and all their pants fell off. Some years ago.
*Snicker!* I enjoyed reading that!
Several years ago, about when this fashion statement got its start, I was in an Emergency Room waiting area, and a kid with baggy pants came waddling in - he'd hurt both arms in an accident and had nothing to hold his pants up, and they were down around his ankles!
There was a story in our local paper last week...a woman stole a car, stopped to get gas and some groceries and paid with a million dollar bill. A MILLION DOLLAR BILL.
What, you don't believe it was real? I've got one I'll sell you for $1000 since you're a freeper. I'll take my $1000 is $3.00 bills.
A guy high on drugs in our town in Missouri robbed a bank with an almost empty tank. Ran out of gas about 4 miles out of town.
Thirty years ago, they wore those dumba$$ platform shoes. A little old lady could run them down if they didn't fall down first.
I swear the fashion designers must be undercover cops so they can get them to wear those stupid clothes.
I hear the newest fashion is going to be snowshoes and sunglasses as dark as welders' goggles.
That'd be hilarious. Get on a crowded Metro train in that getup, and I hope you're going to the end of the line, because that's going to be your first opportunity to get off. Or stumble off. Then there's the escalator to deal with. Assuming you can find it in the dark, that is. But hey! You're stylin'!
"Dumb criminal" ping.
[B]I swear the fashion designers must be undercover cops so they can get them to wear those stupid clothes.[/B]
Actually the truth is that this fashion started in prison where inmates were all given XXL sizes so the prison laundry wouldn't have to worry about Billy Bob getting a medium and Billy Joe gettting a large... it's just feeding on itself... a vicious circle..
LOL!
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In South Central L.A., working the "Vermont" car out of Lennox sheriff's station I got a call of what is now termed a "home invasion" robbery. An elderly man had been beaten and the small proceeds of his social security check had been taken.
He gave me a general description of the two suspects, and I turned to leave. Then he said that one of the two usually hung out at the local bowling alley, then he mentioned that the suspect had a diamond in each of his two upper front teeth.
Well, down to the bowling alley I go, and inside I see a group of "crips" and a few hangers on. I made my way to them and told them I had a really really good joke to tell them, but I'd only tell them if they smiled first.
They did, and I arrested the smiley face with the diamonds in his teeth, and recovered most of the old guy's money.
When they asked me (the rest of them) what the joke was, I said he is while pointing at smiley.
Ha, I posted on a NOLA thread the other day about this "phenomenon" of baggy pants falling down on perps. They had shown a montage of several such incidents on the news that night. Evidently, it's a new cop hobby to put the video clips together for their own entertainment.
The one I remembered most was a guy who was running away from a cop and his pants fell completely down, so he just stepped out of them and kept running in his boxers.
The cop caught up to the abandoned baggy pants, picked them up and found the perp's wallet in them, with his ID. Instead of continuing to chase him, the cop just drove on over to the perp's house and waited out on his front porch for him.
Of course, he came boppin' on up pretty soon, in his boxers, pretty sheepish. He said to the cop, "Yeah, ya got me." Pretty funny.
Can you tell me, if you know - or anyone else, for that matter, if they know - in the photo with that story, are those tiny little suspenders sewn into the tail of the guy's shirt, to hitch onto the baggy pants to keep them up?
If so, I just *thought* I'd seen everything!
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