Cracking down on boxers Police in Flint, Michigan, and Lynwood, Illinois, are finally cracking down on crack. No, they are not attacking the illegal drug culture -- they are launching an all out war on generational cultures.

The Traditionalists are absolutely applauded by low pants. Baby Boomers also frown on the practice of showing boxers in public. Yet the Millennial Generation’s obsession amounts in their view to nothing more than a fashion statement.

In Lynwood anyone showing more than three inches of underwear is subject to a $25 fine. There is no mention of how sting underwear will be handled as it is often less than three inches in its entirety. Nor is there any indication of whether or not the normal folds or drape of the underwear is measured based on the drape or if it is stretched before measuring. If two officers are making the same observation, does one make the final call on the measurement or do they both, in which case we’d have a split decision.

In Flint it is more serious. Showing underwear is a warning. If the pants are below the, shall we say highest point of the crack, a ticket is issued that carries a fine. If starch was not used or the elastic is limp, the matter becomes much more serious as the police make a misdemeanor arrest, which could involved jail time.

Community decency standards are important, butt which crack is more important for the police to spend their time combating?

Labels: Baby-Boomer, Culture_Clash, Generation, Millennial, Traditionalists

  ¶ 7/22/2008