SF Supervisor calls for inquiry into saggy pants incident at SFO

[RandySF]

Supervisor Malia Cohen asked Tuesday that her colleagues go on record with a proposed resolution expressing concern over U.S. Airways' treatment of Deshon Marman, a college football player who was arrested aboard a U.S. Airways flight on June 15 for his alleged refusal to pull up his saggy pants.

Cohen's non-binding resolution also calls on federal aviation authorities to investigate the incident and to develop and implement a consistent dress code for passengers.

Marman, a 20-year-old San Francisco resident, was arrested on suspicion of trespassing, battery and resisting arrest. San Mateo County prosecutors have not decided whether to file charges.



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=93056#ixzz1RxZi0V10

[SoDesuKa]

1. 20 yr Old Football Player

Why couldn't he just pull up his pants?

[LooseWilly]

2. Why should he have to?

Who cares how he wears his pants, or whether he wears sweats, or flip-flops... or whatever?

[pennylane100]

3. I do not care to see people walking around with their underwear showing.

Men or women. If you do not like wearing pants, put on a dress, but don't walk around with your pants around your knees. Of course that is just a personal opinion. I do not think you should kick someone off a plain because of it.

[LooseWilly]

7. I don't care to see pasty white thighs... but I can't have people arrested for it.

Offensive to the eyes is not an arrestable offense... nor should it be.

Luckily DA Wagstaffe has decided not to press charges, so the stupidity stops now.

[RandySF]

4. Well..

His pants were reportedly so low that flight staff could see his package from under his boxers.

[Fumesucker]

5. And yet the same airline let this guy fly..

What could possibly be the difference between the two men?

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/us-airways-lets-man-984307.html



SAN FRANCISCO — Days before a college football player was arrested on a US Airways flight at San Francisco airport following a dispute over his saggy pants, the airline allowed another man wearing skimpy women's panties and mid-thigh stockings to fly, according to a passenger and airline spokeswoman.

This is a June 9, 2011 photo provided by airline passenger Jill Tarlow shows an unnamed passenger scantily dressed and taken at the airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. US Airways is defending its decision to allow the man wearing skimpy women's panties and high heels to fly days before a football player was arrested on a plane in California over a dispute over his saggy pants. The man flew six days before University of New Mexico football player Deshon Marman was arrested on a US Airways flight in San Francisco over allegations he refused to pull up his pants. A US Airways spokeswoman told the San Francisco Chronicle employees were right not to ask the man on the Phoenix flight to cover himself but declined to comment on Marman's arrest. (AP Photo/Jill Tarlow)
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Jill Tarlow, a passenger on a June 9 flight from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Phoenix, took a photo of the scantily clad man, which she provided to the San Francisco Chronicle. The newspaper published the photo in its Wednesday edition.

The man flew six days before University of New Mexico football player DeShon Marman was arrested on a US Airways flight at San Francisco airport following allegations he refused to pull up his pants.

Tarlow told the Chronicle she and other passengers complained before boarding the plane, but US Airways employees did not prevent the unidentified man from flying.

[SoDesuKa]

6. Wasted Political Statement

He'd already boarded the plane. If he'd stood up to the TSA, that would have been a political statement. Instead it sounds like a football player with a big ego. Tough shit.

[LooseWilly]

8. What statement are you referring to?

If mine, how is it wasted?

If you mean Deshon Marman's action, how is it a waste? And what are you talking about "If he'd stood up to the TSA"? ... He was on the plane, TSA hadn't had a problem... it was the airline.

Hell, considering the hassle that comes with wearing a belt through airline security, maybe we should all start letting our trousers sag and hang low... embrace the hassle and discomfort and leave the belts in the baggage.

[Blue_Tires]

9. Well, typically the Captain has final say, so if he asks you to do something

especially if it's the old "We're not leaving the gate until you do this, and the other 150 passengers will hold you responsible," then you have little choice -- And of course there are conflicting reports on if the player complied immediately, got belligerent, or chose to leave the plane himself just on principle...(I'm not defending the arrest; just explaining)

It will be interesting to see if this case sparks any major shift in culture or policy, especially if it gets enough legs to involve the FAA...

[Cali_Democrat]

10. Wasn't there also a recent story about a man who boarded a flight in his underwear?

I think it happened after this incidental with the football player. He was allowed to fly, but of course he was white.