{"id":314,"date":"2007-06-14T09:17:44","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T14:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=314"},"modified":"2007-06-14T09:17:54","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T14:17:54","slug":"louisiana-town-banning-saggy-pants-plans-fines-jail-terms-for-violators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/louisiana-town-banning-saggy-pants-plans-fines-jail-terms-for-violators\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana town banning saggy pants; plans fines jail terms for violators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/9725200-240x180.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-314];player=img;\"  onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/9725200-240x180.jpg','popup','width=240,height=180,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/9725200-240x180-tm.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"399\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"9725200 240X180\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/cp\/Oddities\/070613\/K061304AU.html\" >Louisiana town banning saggy pants; plans fines jail terms for violators<\/a>:<br \/>\nLouisiana town banning saggy pants; plans fines jail terms for violators<br \/>\nPublished: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 | 12:24 PM ET<br \/>\nDELCAMBRE, La. (AP) &#8211; It soon will be a crime in this Cajun-country town to let the waistband of your pants sag too low in public.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Carol Broussard has said he will sign an ordinance the town council approved this week setting penalties of up to six months in jail and a $500 fine for being caught in pants that show undergarments or certain parts of the body.<\/p>\n<p>Broussard said he has nothing against saggy pants but thinks people who wear them should use discretion. &#8220;It&#8217;s gotten way out of hand out here,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Roy, the councilman who introduced the ordinance, said he thought the fine was a little steep and should be more in the $25 range, but he still favoured the measure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if it will do any good, but it won&#8217;t hurt,&#8221; Roy said. &#8220;It&#8217;s obvious,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana town banning saggy pants; plans fines jail terms for violators: Louisiana town banning saggy pants; plans fines jail terms for violators Published: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 | 12:24 PM ET DELCAMBRE, La. (AP) &#8211; It soon will be a crime in this Cajun-country town to let the waistband of your pants sag too low &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/louisiana-town-banning-saggy-pants-plans-fines-jail-terms-for-violators\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Louisiana town banning saggy pants; plans fines jail terms for violators<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-54","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}