Senators reject visible pants fine

[emad]

Victoria Ward in New York
Saturday February 12, 2005
The Guardian

In Virginia there is only one thing more embarrassing than letting your underwear show, and that is getting in a huff about it
Earlier this week Algie Howell, 67, a member of the lower house of the state legislature, proposed a crusade against letting boxer shorts, briefs and thongs peep over the trouser tops.

He gathered the support of fellow members of the house of delegates for a bill to impose a $50 (£26) fine on offenders for behaving in "a lewd or indecent manner".

"That's why they're called undergarments," Mr Howell told the Virginian-Pilot newspaper. "They're supposed to be worn under something else."

But the bill, which attracted international attention when it was passed by the house of delegates, was killed off by a unanimous vote in a senate committee.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1411312,00.html

[brainshrub]

1. I knew Virginians were smarter than that.

:toast: