Low-riding pants

[AlanM]

Say what? Fashion is quite often stupid, but illegal?


AP
Virginia Delegate Lionell Spruill pleaded with his colleagues not to pass the bill.

No Love for Low Riders   
   
The state's House of Delegates passed a bill Tuesday authorizing a $50 fine for anyone who displays his or her underpants in a "lewd or indecent manner."

Del. Lionell Spruill Sr., a Democrat who opposed the bill, had pleaded with his colleagues to remember their own youthful fashion follies.

During an extended monologue Monday, he talked about how they dressed or wore their hair in their teens. On Tuesday, he said the measure was an unconstitutional attack on young blacks that would force parents to take off work to accompany their children to court just for making a fashion statement.

"This is a foolish bill, Mr. Speaker, because it will hurt so many," Spruill said before the measure was approved 60-34. It now goes to the state Senate.

The bill's sponsor, Del. Algie T. Howell, has said constituents were offended by the exposed underwear. He did not speak on the floor Tuesday.

Spruill and Howell, also a Democrat, are both black.

[wdg3rd]

That bill is going to decimate the plumbing profession in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

[Russell Kanning]

Isn't that the point? There OUGHT to be a law about some things

[Kat Kanning]

That bill is going to decimate the plumbing profession in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

You ought to be punished for a crack like that!

[Russell Kanning]

Kat made me literally laugh out loud

[intergraph19]

That bill is going to decimate the plumbing profession in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

...and carpenters and electricians and flooring installers and framers and painters and....the whole contruction industry basically....

[Lloyd Danforth]

Not ALL Carpenters!

Can't they make this law apply to just guys?

[Kat Kanning]

No!  It's just fine when the guys do it!