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Old 02-09-2005, 05:46 PM   #1
CrAZyBeAuTiFuL4
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Default Virginia...what are you thinking?

This is...crazy! LOL. Really people, we have bigger problems than this...good lord!

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State legislators OK ban on ‘lewd or indecent’ underwear displays
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:15 p.m. ET Feb. 9, 2005

RICHMOND, Va. - Virginians who wear their pants so low their underwear shows may want to think about investing in a stronger belt.


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.”

Delegate 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, Delegate 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.

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Now, I see this as having NOTHING to do with race seeing as how people from a number of backgrounds wear their pants low, not just blacks as some were accusing in this article.
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