Droopy drawers means trouble in some places

Posted 08/09/2011

Tourists visiting Florida have yet to be prosecuted under the state’s new law banning baggy pants but Southwest Airlines is enforcing it after a musician was booted off a plane because of his own saggy pants.

Rock star Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, a California-based band, took to Twitter to vent after being kicked off an Oakland-Burbank flight.

"Just got kicked off a southwest flight because my pants sagged too low! What the f--- No joke!" he wrote.

Cindy Qiu, an ABC7 news producer who happened to be on the same flight told the TV station that a flight attendant approached the 39-year-old singer just as the flight was going to take off.

She insisted his pants were too low and asked him to hike them up.

Qiu said Armstrong lashed out, asking the flight attendant, "Don't you have better things to do then worry about that?"

She then threatened to remove Armstrong from the flight. The singer and his traveling companion were then taken off the plane.

Airline spokesman Brad Hawkins said Armstrong was allowed on the next plane to Burbank.

"As soon as we became aware of what had happened, we reached out to apologize for this Customer's experience," Hawkins said in a statement.

It isn't the first time a passenger has been booted of a flight for low-slung trousers, according to the New York Daily News.

University of New Mexico football player Deshmon Marman was taken into custody at San Francisco International Airport when he allegedly refused a U.S. Airways staffer's request to pull up his pants, according to the newspaper.

As for Florida, its new law banning baggy pants nicknamed the “droopy drawers bill” has yet to be enforced. But it’s also drawing attention along with a new law against bestiality. An NBCMiami.com reporter pointed out that residents and visitors “are going to have to start pulling up their pants and stop having sex with animals soon.”

By David Wilkening

Originally published 8 Sep 2011 at: http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/398/f/5923/s/1813fce9/l/0L0Stravelmole0N0Cstories0C11492790Bphp0Dmpnlog0F1/story01.htm