This Is So Stupid.....

Last night, I believe it was, I caught the end of a report on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams about some state that was trying to impose a fine on individuals whose pants showed any part of their boxers/underwear. I thought to myself at the time, without hearing the entire story, which state would be stupid enough to try to get such a bill passed into law. To my dismay, I see that it was the House of Delegates, in my home state of Virginia, that passed the bill. In it, a person would be fined $50 to anyone who publicly and intentionally displays his below-waist undergarments, intended to cover a person's intimate parts, in a lewd or indecent manner. I know this was geared to those teenagers whom I have seen wearing their pants like that.

I have to admit there wasn't very much of this in my high school, but there was some of it. I began to see more and more of it though in the years after I graduated, more specifically from the time period of 1998-2000. I saw this, and was wondering, "Why would people want to do that?" I thought it was a little too revealing, but it was something that I just looked at at being just a fad nothing more. And, it really didn't bother me very much. But to introduce a bill to make it a fineable offense? Come on. This is ludicrous. This is one of those stupid things that shouldn't have even made it into committee. The Commonwealth of Virginia has too many other problems to tackle. Plus, this is a fad that has been going downhill for quite some time now. In my opinion, this is just another instance of the Republican conservative majority in VA of being utterly stupid, and wasting the valuable session time of the legislature. Fix the other problems first, like all the potholes on major roads in northern Virginia!!!! If you would care to read this stupidty yourself go here.