{"id":7208,"date":"2013-04-17T03:07:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T03:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/sagging-pants-to-attract-fine-of-us-100\/"},"modified":"2013-04-17T04:59:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T04:59:05","slug":"sagging-pants-to-attract-fine-of-us-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/sagging-pants-to-attract-fine-of-us-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Sagging Pants to attract Fine of US$100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{In the U.S. Louisiana\u2019s Terrebonne Parish, a new law bans the low-slung, undies-exposing jeans look popularized by hip-hop culture.}}<\/p>\n<p>The ban, approved Wednesday and expected to be signed into law this week, targets the public wearing of pants\u2014and, oddly, skirts\u2014that hang \u201cbelow the waist\u201d and \u201cexpose the skin or undergarments.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Violators will be slapped with fines: $50 for the first offense, $100 for the second, and $100 plus 16 hours of public service for each subsequent offense. <\/p>\n<p>many constituents had called upon the council to do something about what has apparently become a widespread saggy pants problem. <\/p>\n<p>The ban was approved at an April 10th Parish council meeting by a vote of 8-1 and is expected to soon be signed into law by council president Michel Claudet.<\/p>\n<p>The only council member to vote against the ban was Beryl Amed\u00e9e said, \u201cThe problem is our young men are emulating prisoners. It sends a sign that you\u2019re available for sex. It\u2019s a bad example to set.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea that wearing low-slung pants in prison signals some sort of sexual come-on has been a long-held, generally disputed belief about the controversial style\u2019s origins. <\/p>\n<p>Another theory is that folks who let their pants sag below their undies are emulating prisoners who have their belts taken away (for fears of suicide) when they are locked up. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2472 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/g.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Skivvies showing? That&#8217;ll be $100<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2471 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/iiiiiv.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>wirestory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{In the U.S. Louisiana\u2019s Terrebonne Parish, a new law bans the low-slung, undies-exposing jeans look popularized by hip-hop culture.}} The ban, approved Wednesday and expected to be signed into law this week, targets the public wearing of pants\u2014and, oddly, skirts\u2014that hang \u201cbelow the waist\u201d and \u201cexpose the skin or undergarments.\u201d Violators will be slapped with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7208"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7208"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}