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"PinterestFacebookYou might be fined $500 for wearing these underwear-baring sheer pants in Opa-locka, Fla.\nBack in 2007, Opa-locka, a town located in Miami-Dade County in Florida, was one of the first to pass a local ordinance banning low-riding, saggy pants on men&amp;#8212;a law that some people felt was unfairly targeting specific groups of people, especially those interested in hip-hop music and culture. This week, maybe to make it more fair or something, the local government has decided to extend the ban to include women.\nNow, in Opa-locka, it&amp;#39;s illegal for women to wear any pants that expose any underwear or undergarments in public. Accidentally bend over to reach something on a low shelf at at supermarket and your undies peek out over your jeans? That&amp;#39;ll be a $500 fine, ma&amp;#39;am.\nAnd just in case this all sounds like one big joke&amp;#8212;after all, don&amp;#39;t law enforcement officers have anything better to do than to walk around arresting people for not wearing high-waisted trousers?&amp;#8212;rest assured it&amp;#39;s for real. So far in 2013, the local government has issued 72 people tickets for wearing their pants too low.\n&amp;quot;This thing started in Opa-locka and it spread all over the world,&amp;quot; local commissioner Timothy Holmes, who sponsored the bill in 2007, said. &amp;quot;They can try to stop it if they want to, but I don&amp;#39;t think it would ever happen. I never wanted to try to put somebody&amp;#39;s child in jail, even though, in my opinion, some of them need to go to jail with their pants down like that.&amp;quot;\nWhat do you think? Do people really deserve jail time for wearing their pants low? If you&amp;#39;re a woman living in Opa-locka, do you have to only buy high-waisted pants from now on, for fear of being fined $500? Sound off in the comments; we want to know what you think!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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