Do You Know That: A Town In Louisiana Has Banned ‘Saggying’ & Violators Will Be Fined

This is must have become a big problem for the members of the Terrebonne Parish in Louisiana. As an adult, I hate to see young men pull their trousers down (saggying) but then what can I do? It therefore feels good to know that somewhere in the world, the law has been brought in to end this…

Boys will always be boys…right? I just hope the young men will be forced to pay the fines and not parents.

MailOnline Reports;

It is the bane of parents everywhere – teenage boys wearing their trousers at half-mast.

But one small US town is fighting back by banning them.

Despite protests that the ban is unconstitutional, members of the Terrebonne Parish in Louisiana voted overwhelmingly to introduce the laws.

Violators will be fined £30 for a first offence, £70 for a second offence and face a further fine and 16 hours’ community service if they are caught a third time.

Officials said they imposed the ban for the ‘general welfare’ of residents.

And youth leader Diana Collins backed the move, saying it would allow young men to ‘look decent’.

Singer Justin Bieber is among those who favour the ‘saggy pants’ look – trousers halfway down the hips with the underwear exposed to the world.

The trend originated in US prisons, where inmates were not allowed to have belts, and hip hop artists began copying the look in the 1990s.

Barack Obama spoke out against the look in 2008, saying: ‘Brothers should pull up their pants.

‘You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What’s wrong with that? Come on. Some people might not want to see your underwear. I’m one of them.’

Even black leaders, whose community the ban will affect the most, were in favour of the new laws.

‘There is nothing positive about people wearing saggy pants,’ said Jerome Boykin, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People.

However, there is some opposition – the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana says the ban is ‘unconstitutional’.

‘To ban a particular clothing style would violate a liberty interest guaranteed under the 14th Amendment,’ they said. 

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution says no citizen should be deprived of ‘life, liberty or property’ and no person should be denied equal protection of the law.