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Green Day Singer Kicked Off Flight for Baggy Pants

John Johnson — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:12:53 CDT

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong learned about airline security the hard way: He got booted off his Southwest Airlines flight this week because he refused to hike up his baggy pants, reports San Francisco's ABC 7 . When a flight attendant asked him to comply before takeoff, he responded, "Don't you...

Football Player Arrested Over Droopy Pants

Kevin Spak — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:54:24 CDT

A University of New Mexico football player was kicked off a plane and ultimately arrested yesterday because airline employees didn’t like how low his pants were hanging. Police got a call at 9am complaining that someone was exposing themselves outside a US Airways gate, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. An...

Baggy Pants Ban Zips Though Florida Senate

Rob Quinn — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:40:05 CDT

Florida State Sen. Gary Siplin's long quest to get the law behind baggy pants bans is nearing fruition. Siplin's bill to make it illegal for students on campuses to wear clothes exposing their underwear has passed the state Senate, and a similar bill is making its way through the House,...

Pants on the Ground? School 'Urkels' Kid Offenders

Nick McMaster — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:15:17 CST

Droopy drawers used to be a problem for Memphis middle school principal Bobby White, but he's solved it with a little help from an old pop-culture icon: Steve Urkel, the perennial nerd. Kids roaming the halls with no belt or excessively saggy pants now get "Urkeled"—school staffers use zip-ties...

Man Shoots Teen Over Saggy Pants

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:08:57 CDT

Sure, saggy pants are irritating … but irritating enough to shoot someone over? A 45-year-old Memphis man admits he did just that. Kenneth Bonds apparently yelled at two teens who were on their way to a candy store, telling them to pull up their pants. When they didn’t, Bonds started...

Court: Hoisting Saggy Pants Not Illegal Search

Rob Quinn — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:52:00 CDT

Beltless criminals beware: if a police officer has to haul up your pants, it's a "wardrobe assist," not a search, even if he does find a gun, according to a Minnesota court. The court was told that a suspect's baggy jeans slid to his knees when he was ordered to...

NY Ads Crack Down on Saggy Pants

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:32:29 CDT

A Brooklyn politician has launched a billboard ad campaign slamming the growing cheekiness of saggy pants. "We're better than this!" screams the ads that urge residents to "Stop the Sag." The billboards feature photos of the backsides of two young men with pants so low that their boxer shorts are...

'Pants' Not Just on the Ground— It's Everywhere

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:51:15 CST

Not surprisingly, the award for first viral video hit of 2010 goes to American Idol audition song “Pants on the Ground.” After 62-year-old “General” Larry Platt introduced his masterpiece to the world last Wednesday, it took off, garnering 1 million Facebook fans and several million YouTube clicks in less than...

Saggy-Pants Debates Just Hot Air

Matt Cantor — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:51:35 CST

Legal battles against sagging pants are being waged across the US at an absurd rate, writes Greg Beato in Reason . Detractors argue that exposing large “swathes of underwear” should be banned, particularly because the style emulates prison attire and to wear them is “to embrace criminality.” “I certainly respect the...