While we have been criticizing public officials for their criminalization of baggy pants, it appears that we can now add the objection that they are assisting crime by requiring tailored outfits. Columbus police have a video showing a man who failed in a bank robbery effort when he tripped over his baggy pants.
The baggy gunman entered the bank in the afternoon and assaulted two employees before fleeing with money. However, his baggy pants tripped him up and then the dye pack went off in the money. He proceeded to drop the bag and flee (as best he could) in his baggy pants.
This was not, however, the first felon foiled by baggy pants, here.
Source: Columbus Dispatch
It’s like that American Idol audition hit: “Lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground.”
I second David’s thought.
Bda,
I’ll leave this on a couple threads … I have an organization in Haiti recommended by DeWine and it looks like a very good one.
No gun,No baggie pants but robbery none the less:
RealEconTV
Business news without the bullshit
The financial cataclysm in a nutshell
You don’t need to speak
Chinese to get the message
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/banking-malfeasance/the-financial-cataclysm-in-a-nutshell.html
Here’s a little “how to” poem I wrote for “would-be” bank robbers:
If You Want to Rob a Bank
by Elaine M.
Put on a mask,
Grab a gun,
A canvas bag…
And when you’re done,
Walk into a bank
And loudly say:
“I’m gonna rob
This bank today.”
But if you hope
To get away,
Evade police…
Arrest—then, hey,
Don’t be
Wearing baggy pants.
You won’t escape…
Won’t stand a chance.
Great poem Elaine, but this perp doesn’t have enough brain power
to actually read a poem! I have always wondered about the baggy pants guys that I see on the street. I just don’t understand what the attraction is to pants that hang below your behind!
rafflaw,
Another dumb criminal:
He brought a bag to put the cash in
Exploding dye bag cooled his passion
His pants fell down, his face turned ashen
Felony foiled by foolish fashion
HenMan,
Well done! That’s quite a quatrain. Love the alliteration in the last lne.
Correction: Love the alliteration in the last LINE.
ElaineM-
Strictly amateur stuff. I used to read Burma-Shave signs.
HenMan,
It’s too bad that so little light verse gets published these days. I love the clever light verse written by people like Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, and others.
Here are three clerihews I wrote a couple of years ago:
Socrates’
Analyses
Were deducted, so they say,
Through an interminable series of Q and A.
Eve,
So naive
In her birthday suit,
Tempted Adam with forbidden fruit.
Sir Isaac Newton—
There’s no refutin’—
With a force of nature had to grapple
When he got conked on the head with a falling apple.
ElaineM- Outstanding!!!
Two of my favorites from long ago-
(1) The shortest poem in the English language:
FLEAS:
Adam had’em
(2) In this vale
Of toil and sin,
Your head grows bald
But not your chin
Burma-Shave
Since reading this one I’ve had “Baggy Trousers” by 80′s English Ska band, Madness.
I’ll leave it for someone else to embed, but it’s a great video. Madness were well known for knocking out great videos for a few grand when other bands were spending hundreds of thousands on stuff that wasn’t anywhere near as entertaining.
I understand the thief’s fashion motivation, you shouldn’t go to work without dressing appropriately, in this case the baggie look of a convict. Some fashion statements cost more than others, but they are all valuable.
Now how is this bank robber going to pass a credit check with pants like that: http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2010/11/08/states-are-finally-getting-the-right-idea-by-limiting-credit-checks-on-job-applicants/ If he wants a job, he’d better start getting his pants tailored or something.
Hukoto Ken,
Thanks for the link. I once had a spirited discussion with someone in law enforcement after I heard him say that “bad people have bad credit.” And he was head of the department…
Santa ain’t coming to him…