Massive police response triggered by low-rise trousers

More than 30 patrol cars, a police helicopter and two canine units responded to a Palm Beach, Fla.-area shopping mall after a college student was sighted wearing baggy, sagging pants.

Frantz Leger, 20, a business major at Florida State University, had previously been asked to leave the mall because of his baggy pants, so his reappearance amounted to trespassing, police said.

Leger’s family questioned the charges. A brawl then ensued, which resulted in the arrests of Leger’s mother, father, sister and two cousins on multiple charges, including pelting some 20 sheriff’s deputies with Pepsi bottles. Roads around the mall were closed to traffic during the incident.

Lt. Jay Hart of the Sheriff’s Office told reporters that the authorities’ overwhelming show of force was appropriate in this case. “His pants were down below his butt,” Hart explained. “The mall doesn’t put up with that tomfoolery bullcrap.”

Sources: The Palm Beach Post, United Press International