Gun turned up after hands went up and pants fell down

StarTribune.com ^ | 9/14/10 | CHAO XIONG

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

White Castle, weed and baggy pants. It has all the elements of a comedy, but throw in a concealed handgun, a suspected drug deal and a wardrobe malfunction, and it's a Minnesota Court of Appeals case that even compelled a judge to quote an "American Idol" audition.

St. Paul police officer Kara Breci and her partner spotted a possible drug deal in a car at a White Castle parking lot in November 2008. They ordered the men out of their vehicle and told them to put their hands in the air. That's when suspect Frank Irving Wiggins' baggy pants, already dangerously low at the knees, fell to the pavement.

Breci hoisted the jeans and found a .38-caliber pistol inside the front pocket. Wiggins was eventually convicted of possession of a firearm by an ineligible person and sentenced to five years in prison. He challenged the legality of the pants-hoisting, with the case ultimately landing at the state Court of Appeals.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Lookin' like a foo' with your pants on the ground.....

[oh8eleven]

spotted a possible drug deal in a car at a White Castle
It's what you crave!

[aberaussie]

bttt

[Paladin2]

Who let the dogs out?

[Egon]

Wow. Common sense from a court? ...here in Minnesota, no less?

[Las Vegas Ron]

Wiggins was eventually convicted of possession of a firearm by an ineligible person

No such thing as inelgible person. Subject/serf/slave yes, Citizen no.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Shocking...I know.....

[Hacklehead]

Is wearing clothes that fit or using a belt considered acting white?

[oyez]

We don't do WC down here. White Castle is a cheap knock off of the famous Crystal burger.

[rahbert]

Lookin’ like a foo’ with your pants on the ground.....

which’o ?

[PATRIOT1876]

HaHa!

Ridiculous fashion can be even more serious than people laughing at you behind your back.

I imagine that (inside) people are laughing at those who wear “dump pants” like they did at Huggy Bear when he went out in his ‘70’s gitup after he got out of the slammer.

Soon they will be laughing in the faces of the dump pants wearers

[Oshkalaboomboom]

We don't do WC down here. White Castle is a cheap knock off of the famous Crystal burger.

You've got it bass-ackwards. Rody Davenport visited White Castle restaurants taking notes of successful features before setting forth on his own venture. Davenport and J. Glenn Sherrill set up the first Krystal at the corner of Seventh and Cherry streets in Chattanooga, TN on October 24, 1932, 11 years after White Castle.

[scott7278]

I was just going to say “White Castle came first,” but your answer is more detailed. ;)

[Gilbo_3]

so how does an 'ineligible person' acquire a handgun...???

basic english would suggest he was incapable of doing so...

ifn hes too dangerous to be considered 'eligible', why the 'f' is he walkin the same streets as my family and neighbors ???

[dirtboy]

Heck, I’m OK with this, as long as the cop is administering a turbo-wedgie. :^)

[dirtboy]

No such thing as inelgible person. Subject/serf/slave yes, Citizen no.

I have a feeling 'ineligible person' here means convicted felon.

[oh8eleven]

White Castle is a cheap knock off of the famous Crystal burger.
Surely you jest.

[Las Vegas Ron]

ifn hes too dangerous to be considered 'eligible', why the 'f' is he walkin the same streets as my family and neighbors ???

My sentiments exactly.

[RichInOC]

That’s comedy.

[Moonman62]

"We are confident that our opinion will not be misconstrued to suggest that an officer can freely meddle with a person's clothes to the refrain, 'Pants on the ground, pants on the ground'..."

LOL. Even the judges in liberal MN can get it it right.