Officer Dicks Says, "Pull Up Your Pants or I'll Pull Them Up for You!"

Posted by Nicole Pasulka

 

This is a photo of Flint Michigan interim Police Chief David Dicks cracking down on a man wearing saggy pants. Why pay such close attention to such a minor trangression?

The police officer has annouced that he will fine anyone found to be sagging $500 because he believes low riding your pants is indecent exposure.

Oh thank God, in Flint, Michigan, one of the most violent cities in the US, Chief Dicks has his priorities straight. He's been hard at work driving around and issuing warnings against the horrible, life-threatening crime of showing the top of your boxer shorts when you walk down the street.

As he drove through Flint's north and east sides, he flipped on the flashing lights of his departmental-issued Chevy Tahoe as he stopped a shirtless young man walking in the streets with saggy shorts and exposed boxers.

"Did you hear about the law?" the chief asked.

"I heard about it the other day," the man responded.

"I'm gonna issue a warning. I need you to get a belt because it's indecent exposure," the chief said to the twentysomething man on Delaware and N. Franklin.

During another stop, Dicks marveled at the steps a man took to wear his pants low.

Riiiiight. Does this sound like a transparent excuse to drive around staring a young men's butts to anyone else? 


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Posted Jul 17 2008, 02:25 PM
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Comments

grimnir said:

Officer Dicks is just trying to get the crack problem under control.

July 17, 2008 6:35 PM

therobotchoir said:

OMG... thats an ingenious way to fondle straight guys and not look like your fondling them.

Oh, will the ever clever ways of the homosexual-male's (well any-sexual really...) mind ever cease to amaze?

July 18, 2008 1:06 AM

fitandfun71 said:

Simply put, we are losing our Constitutional rights a piece at a time.  I defy any future poster to defend how this practice is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

July 18, 2008 3:02 AM

civiljar said:

what about the first amendment? granted that dude looks like a tool, but it's his right to look like as much of a tool as he wants!

July 18, 2008 8:18 AM

thinkywritey said:

A municipality can evidently put whatever law they want into place, but it can still be overturned (and precedent set). The ACLU is already all over it. It will be crushed soon enough. (I live in metro Detroit.)

July 18, 2008 9:33 AM

bill hicks said:

what if he was just wearing boxers aren't they just shorts?

July 19, 2008 2:37 PM

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