Football Player Wearing Baggy Pants Gets Booted From Airplane at SFO

[RandySF]

University of New Mexico football player, Deshon Marman, was boarding a plane in San Francisco when a airline employee noticed his sagging pants were just a little too low, a look that started in jail and has politicians now trying to legislate it out of style.

According to news outlets, the employee said his pants were "below his buttocks, but above the knees, and his boxer shorts were showing."

And as US Airways spokeswoman Valerie Wunder puts it, overly saggy pants can violate the airlines dress code, which forbids indecent exposure or inappropriate dress attire.


http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/06/deshon_marman.php

[kestrel91316]

1. Poor baby, the mean airline people didn't like everyone being forced to

look at his underpants.

[hedgehog]

2. It's a safety issue - imagine trying to evacuate a dark, smoke filled

plane and this guy's pants fall down and trip him!

;-)

[rfranklin]

3. Reminds me of the compalints about platform shoes in the 70s...

some complained that it was a way to slow down the brothers as they were trying to escape arrest.

[hedgehog]

5. Seems to me Dick Gregory had an entire routine about that....

[struggle4progress]

4. Deshon Marman arrested at airport

June 16, 2011, 11:27 AM ET
... Sgt. Michael Rodriguez said ... that after 15 minutes, Marman got off the plane and was charged with trespassing, battery and resisting arrest. He was being held on $11,000 bail, according to the newspaper. His arraignment is scheduled for Thursday afternoon ... http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6667391&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

[Blue_Tires]

6. now he can take the bus, i guess...

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Isn't looking like a dork punisment enough? nt