Banning People with Pants Hanging Down Breaches Human Rights
Judge Overrides Decision to Ban Offender from Showing Underwear
The teenager, Ellis Drummond who is 18, a drug user and violent offender, was given an ASBO (Anti Social Behaviour Order) and banned from wearing his clothing in this way, because it was intimidating.
Many gangsters and criminals in the UK, including shoplifters and muggers, wear hoods up to hide their faces, and also grossly oversized clothing that hang halfway down their legs to try and intimidate people on the streets.
This is a sad ruling by the judge, and it opens up many future problems in a society that has gone crazy in so many ridiculous ways.
Firstly, if it's against human rights to prevent people from exposing their underwear in this fashion, little can be done to prevent people from walking around naked.
Where you see signs that say "No Shirt No Service" or similar, does that mean any building that wants visitors to dress properly will now need to display such a sign and also enforce it?
If one person can get away with it, then it makes a precedent for the future and means that many more can too, and in a society where both in the UK and the USA they have been trying to stop this fad, this decision will come as a kick in the backside for those who stand for decency.
The one thing I do not understand is why people think they are cool when they dress like morons.
The wearing of a cap with the peak backwards looks daft, with the peak twisted at an angle and the cap being oversized makes the wearer look dumb, but only someone who is 80 cents short of a dollar could surely think that wearing jeans 5 sizes too big and having to hold them up is cool.
Those who dress like this don't so much walk as waddle, constantly treading on the legs of their jeans, and having to keep grabbing them as the move to stop them falling down completely.
I fail to see what is clever or cool about looking like a complete moron.
There is a positive side to this however, since many if not most of these dumb-dressers are gang members and/or criminals of one level or another. Fancy making it so easy for the police to identify you as such! That is so clever. You might as well be wearing a t-shirt with the legend "CRIMINAL" on it!
Then there is the good old police chase, and even a fat old unfit police detective ought to be able to catch a criminal who is waddling along with oversized jeans down around his knees, and one hand desperately clutching them in an effort to hold them up.
It really does make you wonder what society is coming to, and what the future holds for out kids doesn't it.
Next, we will see someone going into a bank wearing a hood and a shirt saying "BANK ROBBER". The silent alarm will sound before they even get to the cashier, and they won't have a clue as to how they got caught.
I suppose it is a good thing in a way that the IQ of uneducated druggy gangsters who breed with other uneducated druggy gangsters produces offspring with even less IQ and even more uneducated.
Streetwise they may be, but in my language, streetwise equates to Thick As A Brick!
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Post a CommentDickens: “If the law supposes that,†said Mr. Bumble,… “the law is a ass—a idiot." (Mr. Bumble, the beadle.)
Sure makes them look like idiots trying to run down the street!
I'm behind too,b ut sending PL your way:)
I only wear my hoodie when I'm cold or its raining, but ilike to have it when it's cold. I can see why they do this, but...
Oh I love that Becca, great thinking.
While I very much agree with your article, I really got a chuckle over the kid who went into a restaurant only to be thrown out, hey, he had a shirt tied around his neck by the sleeves and while he had no socks, he was carrying a pair of shoes. He considered suing!
When I taught at an inner-city middle school years ago, the male teachers would go around with those unbreakable plastic ties in hand in the hallway. Whenever they saw a kid with their pants hanging down, they would make them bind up their pants with those ties so they couldn't come down and had to be cut off.
I think a lot of the legality depends upon 1) Is it a public or private institution or a public area and 2) what is consider indecent? As far as I know "indecent exposure" is still against the law. Great discussion Tony!
Now I have the song "Pants on the Ground" in my head from the American Idol auditions. If there is anyone alive who still hasn't seen it, you need to look it up on youtube. Hilarious!
Although it is hard to understand why anyone would want to wear their clothes like this, it's also a little scary how easily swayed people are when others make them think they look cool or hip or whatever the term is these days. I think women have been falling for this trap for years by wearing uncomfortable clothes just because some fashion designer told them it was fashionable. What you wish young people could understand is that how they appear in public is how others will view and treat them. Dress like a thug, be thought a thug.