Pull 'Em Up! Supporters March To End Saggy Pants Culture (When your panties show, that's a no go)

Digitriad ^ | 10/09/10

[Libloather]

Pull 'Em Up! Supporters March To End Saggy Pants Culture
Updated: 10/9/2010 8:06:54 PM

Winston-Salem, NC-- Ken and Gwen Rasheed are hitting teens below the belt. The couple, who lives in Winston-Salem, are revitalizing an effort to get the community to take a zero tolerance stand on saggy pants.

The Rasheeds told WFMY News 2, earlier this week, that although a fight for an ordinance failed in 2008, they are taking up the issue again and using a different approach. They now believe that to make change, you have to change the culture.

The couple has already started the ground work on their new approach by spending time with teenagers and mentoring them about the saggying pants. The Rasheeds want teens to understand that it is inappropriate and other consequences that come with wearing saggying pants.

Saturday, they took the No Saggying fight to the streets and held a community march, rally.

[Libloather]

Damn near ran off the road when I saw some idiot in the parking lot of the local IHOP wearing his so-called 'pants' around his ankles. At that point there was no real need for some denim exterior shell. He might as well walk around in his well displayed underwear.

Just list the idiots as prey and the whole thing can be resolved.

[Yaelle]

[chooseascreennamepat]

Is this really an important facit in our culture?

Sheeeeesh.

[handy old one]

Can you say TARGET PRACTICE!! at the top of your lungs and get their attention!!!

[Yaelle]

Someone please explain how this is cool. Saw one of these guys the other day. He can't walk without holding his pants up in the crotch. Man how these guys love handling their crotch.

[yldstrk]

what a bunch of heathen doofuses

[Fast Moving Angel]

A staple gun would work.

[GnuHere]

Johnnie Cochran:
“If the pants don’t fit,
you must staple it.”

[doc1019]

Guess I’m getting old. I just don’t see the advantages in showing the world my underpants. Being cool is one thing, being uncomfortable and showing my undies to the world is another. Anytime I see exposed underwear and pants down below the belt, I just laugh and point.

[Hodar]

Saw a 18 yr old kid at a local Walmart, renting a movie at the Redbox kiosk with pants like this. I stood behind of him and snickered at him, deliberately loud enough for him to hear.

Eventually, he turned around and said “What are you laughing at?” I replied I was laughing at him.

“What’s so funny” he said, getting a little angry. I said “Your pants are hanging down - I know it’s a fashion statement, but do you know who originated it, and where it originated?”

He said “No”, and his demeanor got a little more subdued.

So, I informed him that the gay men in prisons, who felt in the need for some loving from any man with the fancy for gay sex, would advertize their willingness by wearing ‘Easy Access’ pants. They would eventually get a ‘date’ and sneak around a corner for some ‘fun’, before the Security Guard would catch them.

So, I said “Here you are, walking around WalMart - apparently cruising for some male loving from anyone with a handkering, ya having any luck?”.

He got red, and didn’t say another word as he walked out of the store. I’ve seen him in Walmart since; wearing Jeans and a Belt and his shirt tucked in. He doesn’t make eye contact with me; but I still look and giggle.

[Bobalu]

As long as their nasty butts don’t show why care about what piece of cloth covers them?

[doc1019]

Amen! I have done this on several occasions. If a conversation doesn’t ensue, the laugh does. LOL! One of the joys of my life, laughing at these idiots. Makes me sleep better at night.

[mountn man]

[Redbob]

I thought the guy in Memphis used the right approach...

[stilloftyhenight]

I think they’re hysterical! I love watching them trying to walk, one hand on to the back of their pants trying to keep them up,
;)

[dufekin]

In this horrendously bad economy, they can’t afford pants that fit, so they wear old too small pants below the butt. Probably swiped from wardrobes of schoolchildren after theirs wore to tatters.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

This “fashion” is actually the invention of “da man.” It’s designed to prevent young criminals from fleeing the police. That, along with small, portable basketball goals has put a real dent in crime.

[Kirkwood]

What is funny is when there are cops chasing them down the street and they’re trying to hold their pants up. Seen this a few times since this started and they always get caught when the pants fall down. LOL!

[Libloather]

I love watching them trying to walk, one hand on to the back of their pants trying to keep them up,

I never said that I didn't laugh.

[Vor Lady]

Supposedly this ‘look’ started in prisons as a signal.