Pull 'Em Up!

Dallas unveiled a new billboard campaign on city streets this week with the slogan "Pull "Em Up!". City Hall wants to encourage Dallas youth to "Represent Yourself the way you Present Yourself" and to know "That's Not Hip Hop, That's Flip-Flop" when it comes to saggy drawers.

The bottom line: They don't want to see yours.

One Dallas School Board member tried to get council members to pass an ordinance banning saggy pants last year. "No one should have to be subjected to someone else's underwear publicly - that is indecent," he said. The initiative has stalled in Dallas but the idea is popping up in other places like Atlanta and Trenton, New Jersey. In Louisiana, one town punishes saggy pants with six months in jail or a $500 fine.

The anti-saggy pants campaign was created to improve the image of the Dallas area. Mayor Pro-Tem Dwayne Caraway believes it will help unemployment and make the area more attractive to tourists and investors."At what point do we step up, as leaders of the city, as men, to say 'hey fellas, let's pull them up?'" the Mayor said. The ordinance would be enforced by Dallas police as a civil offense.

What say you?

Is this a waste of time and a violation of civil liberties or possibly just what the doctor ordered?

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Kimberly lives in Petroville where she lives and writes daily.