Thursday, July 10, 2008

Fung, Smiff: No longer vacationing in Flint

Flint police crack down on saggy pants
(click for the ridicurous graphic)

Flint residents now have to watch their butts because Police Chief David Dicks (Eh, eh, he said dicks--ed.) is on the lookout.

Dicks, who took over the department last month on an interim basis, announced that his officers would start arresting people wearing saggy pants that expose skivvies, boxer shorts or bare bottoms.

"Some people call it a fad," Dicks told the Free Press this week while patrolling the streets of Flint. "But I believe it's a national nuisance. It is indecent and thus it is indecent exposure, which has been on the books for years."

On June 27, the chief issued a departmental memorandum telling officers: "This immoral self expression goes beyond freedom of expression."

The crime, he says, is disorderly conduct or indecent exposure, both misdemeanors punishable by 93 days to a year in jail and/or fines up to $500.

Dicks, 41, broke down his interpretation of the laws as such: Pants pulled completely below the buttocks with underwear showing is disorderly conduct; saggy pants with skin of the buttocks showing is indecent exposure, and saggy pants, not completely below the buttocks, with underwear exposed results in a warning....

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5 comments:

Corms said...

A lot of Flint plumbers are going to be in trouble.

k-mad said...

On the bright side, it appears that actual crime has been eliminated in Flint if the police have time for this.

Corms said...

True K-Mad. When't Michael Moore going to do a movie about that?

Smiff said...

When't - i like it.

Corms said...

Me know type sew good twoday.