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C.T. Martin: I’ll show you kids what a belt’s for!

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Forget the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Atlanta’s cantankerous Councilman C.T. Martin wants to start the Brotherhood of the Unsaggy Britches.

Nearly a year after a citizens’ task force on droopy trousers (we only wish we were making this up) decided that his proposed city-wide ban on visible knickers was one bone-headed idea, Martin is bouncing back with a new resolution commending Morehouse College for discouraging the “wearing of exposed underwear.”

Here’s a bit of the language of Martin’s measure:

WHEREAS, the Atlanta City Council established a task force to recommend whether the City of Atlanta, Georgia should amend its indecency code to make it illegal for exposure of one’s undergarments in a public place; and

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