Senators reject visible pants fine

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

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