Friday, September 5, 2008

Flint falling behind on the baggy pants patrol

Flint Expatriate and Haskell Community Center bowling champion Jim Holbel writes:

"So have you heard if Flint has any baggy pants arrests yet? Those bastards in Riviera Beach, Florida are Stealing Flint's thunder. The Smoking Gun reports:

Meet Kenneth Smith. The Florida man, 29, was arrested yesterday for wearing baggy pants. Smith was busted by Riviera Beach cops for violating a city ordinance governing low-slung trousers (or, legally speaking, 'exposure of undergarment in public').

"I double checked the Flint chart though, and exposure of 2" of undies is only a warning in F-Town. Maybe they just don't have anyone to enforce the law. Or it could just be a forward looking strategy to avoid the first round of civil liberties litigation, thus allowing Riviera Beach
to be the trial case and saving Flint unnecessary legal exposure.

"Or maybe not."



3 comments:

  1. Dropping baggy pants for a second...I'd totally forgotten about bowling at Haskell.

    I love this site!

    :^)

    ReplyDelete
  2. I'd forgotten about Haskell Community Center! wow

    ReplyDelete
  3. my Gawd GY! give the Don-ster and and, uh,the "magic flute" aka super-dicks guy a break! I mean, it's gotta be hard as hell to start up their very own PAC(8-10 million$-outta donster's pocket, uh-huh)!! And such noble work they'll be doing to: goin' on search and destroy missions against corruption in politicos!!!How can Don da Con and his hench-scratch that-po-lice chief bust perverse droptrou boys when they're out destroying serious rivals/critics, uh, I mean OTHER sleazy politicians...I didn't know if I wanted to retch or laugh when I saw that. musta been a contact buzz from the biogas...

    ReplyDelete

Thanks for commenting. I moderate comments, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. You might enjoy my book about Flint called "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City," a Michigan Notable Book for 2014 and a finalist for the 33rd Annual Northern California Book Award for Creative NonFiction. Filmmaker Michael Moore described Teardown as "a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once-great American city." More information about Teardown is available at www.teardownbook.com.