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Legal paternalism reaches a new low

Yesterday I was standing in the lineup at the bank and I caught a bit of a newsclip on TV about a saggy pants law. Afterwards I googled it, and learned that there are – and have been for the past couple of years – American towns introducing legislation against the wearing of saggy pants.

The mayor of Delcambre, Louisiana sounds a bit inbred to me.

“Kids are wearing their pants so low that its ashamed. You can see their underwear and that’s ashamed,” Mayor Carol Broussard said. While Broussard said the problem is not exclusive to Delcambre, its prevalent enough to prompt such action.

“In any town its the same thing. That’s ashamed that the parents are allowing them to wear their pants like that,” he said.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like saggy pants either. But whatever happened to live and let live, and just putting up with the trivial stuff we don’t like, such as other people’s taste in clothing or music, or mangled English?


Note: Nik wrote an interesting piece recently on a local example of legislative overkill.

5 comments to Legal paternalism reaches a new low

  • Gilles

    From Carol Broussard:

    Someone just forwarded this to me. I think its ashamed that peepul like you and your big words are a loud to make fun of God-fearing Chrishtians and our values that way. As for “paternalism”, we don’t do that anymore since the federal government outlawed it along with fraternalism.

    ASHAMED on you, “Zoom”.

    [LOL]

  • Deb

    We heard hear on the ship that it is called the “Crack Law” not the “Saggy Pants Law”… Poor Billy, he could go broke for every time he got fined for having his pants too low.

  • As a fervent poop-flusher, I take some issue with that aspect of Nik’s essay. However, I am in agreement with the concept of being over-legislated and said so in a blog entry myself. As I said, “Will someone please save us from useless legislation?”.

  • lol. It’s best to know that life is a stage, and more specifically a sketch comedy where there are only two roles: Abbott and Castello

    I think people with no sense of humor are put on earth as straight men for those with a sense of humor, such as poop-nose-wrinklers-get-the-fuzz-fussers versus those who will laugh in the face of the eventual decision that dog poop will have to be eviscerated upon evacuation because not trash cans nor ground nor sewer systems are capable of handing it. It will become an illicit underground replacing the drug-selling lucrativeness (once drugs are all legalized to flatten that market) of the Hell’s Angles with them meeting surreptitiously in parks for deals to take one’s dog poop away, no questions asked.

  • ‘The mayor of Delcambre, Louisiana sounds a bit inbred to me’

    Hear, hear, who voted for her anyhows? It’s ashamed…