This is a photo of Flint Michigan interim Police Chief David Dicks cracking down on a man wearing saggy pants. Why pay such close attention to such a minor trangression?
The police officer has annouced that he will fine anyone found to be sagging $500 because he believes low riding your pants is indecent exposure.
Oh thank God, in Flint, Michigan, one of the most violent cities in the US, Chief Dicks has his priorities straight. He's been hard at work driving around and issuing warnings against the horrible, life-threatening crime of showing the top of your boxer shorts when you walk down the street.
As he drove through Flint's north and east sides, he flipped on the flashing lights of his departmental-issued Chevy Tahoe as he stopped a shirtless young man walking in the streets with saggy shorts and exposed boxers.
"Did you hear about the law?" the chief asked.
"I heard about it the other day," the man responded.
"I'm gonna issue a warning. I need you to get a belt because it's indecent exposure," the chief said to the twentysomething man on Delaware and N. Franklin.
During another stop, Dicks marveled at the steps a man took to wear his pants low.
Riiiiight. Does this sound like a transparent excuse to drive around staring a young men's butts to anyone else?