Baggy Pants. Baggy, baggy pants.

On Monday, I was driving through a neighborhood far from my own on the way to visit a machine shop deep in an industrial complex.  On the side walk I spotted a kid (18?, 20?) literally holding his pants up. 

There was a belt through the belt loops, yet he was shuffling along at a quick pace holding his pants up with one hand.

The belt was totally below his ass and one leg of the boxers was on top of the pants.  So, I then noticed it was actually a group of these guys (baggy pants guys), possibly 6 or 9, walking/jogging quickly through a parking lot.  The guy with the baggiest pants was as the back of the pack.  Around the corner were two guys scrapping.  Seriously, one guy was beating the shit out of the other one. It was pretty one-sided. One of the crowd stepped in and started trying to break it up.

I'm not opposed to getting involved, but I was a lone guy wearing business casual in a place I really did not fit in, so I drove on.

The image and feelings of helplessness are sticking with me.  I was afraid.

Anyway, from this, I think I figured something out. It occurred to me that the guys with the baggiest pants must be the least likely to commit crimes.  Why?

You can't run if you have to hold your pants up.

To carry this a step further (a step too far?), I decided that the baggy pants look is all about looking like something you're not.  I'm not sure what that something is.  A part of me wonders if pants too big are meant to look like you've lost weight from a crack binge, yet are so tough that you still have all the functions intact?  The comedy is, I know that just because you look tough, you know that you can't run fast enough to get away, so you're probably not doing anything bad.
:)