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This birdbrained bandit took turkey stuffing to a whole new level. A Brooklyn teen was caught on video shoving a 12-pound turkey breast into his baggy sweatpants -- and then waddling out of a Bed-Stuy grocery with an irate butcher hot on his trail, sources said yesterday. "He's got a big turkey in his pants!" Fine Fare Grocery cashier Michelle Benjamin yelled to butcher Sergio Marte, who chased down alleged poultry poacher Deon Williams, 19, outside the Marcus Garvey Boulevard store. "You have something in your pants!" Marte barked at Williams, who squealed back, "I'll give it to you --...

Pull 'Em Up! Supporters March To End Saggy Pants CultureUpdated: 10/9/2010 8:06:54 PM Winston-Salem, NC-- Ken and Gwen Rasheed are hitting teens below the belt. The couple, who lives in Winston-Salem, are revitalizing an effort to get the community to take a zero tolerance stand on saggy pants. The Rasheeds told WFMY News 2, earlier this week, that although a fight for an ordinance failed in 2008, they are taking up the issue again and using a different approach. They now believe that to make change, you have to change the culture. The couple has already started the ground work...

It's not often that a court gets to cite "Pants on the Ground" as a precedent. The Minnesota Court of Appeals apparently could not resist referring to the Internet hit rap song when it ruled Tuesday that a police officer did not make a "search" when she pulled up the baggy pants of a man being investigated in a suspected drug deal in St. Paul. As she was hauling up his sagging pants, the officer found a gun. Frank Irving Wiggins, now 24, of Minneapolis was convicted of possession of a firearm by an ineligible person and sentenced to five...

A man accused of hiding two pounds of hot dogs in his pants before leaving a grocery store sans paying faces a misdemeanor theft charge, according to a recently released arrest affidavit. A loss prevention worker at a Publix at South U.S. 1 and Prima Vista Boulevard last week told investigators she saw a man later identified as Allan Polhemus on aisle five "conceal a package of hot dogs in his pants," an affidavit states. The 32 ounce package of Publix jumbo beef franks was valued at $6.99. The wiener packaging describes the dogs as "meaty & delicious" and as...

HORN LAKE, Tenn.- Officials in a Tennessee town said they are working on a new ordinance to ban locals from wearing their pants low enough to reveal underwear or bare backsides. Horn Lake Mayor Nat Baker and members of the board of aldermen said they have seen recent increases in men wearing their pants in the saggy fashion, leading them to seek a ban in the form of an ordinance, The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal reported Thursday. "There have been ordinances like this upheld across the country, and in talking with the city attorney, I think we can draw up something...

PARIS, - A group of French lawmakers wants to repeal an "obsolete" law banning women from wearing trousers while outdoors in Paris. The 10 members of the French parliament suggesting the "obsolete" law, introduced by the city's police chief in 1799, be "de-legislated" said it is already trumped by 1946 legislation making men and women equal under the French constitution, The (London) Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday. The draft bill follows President Nicolas Sarkozy's suggestion that parliament take time during the second half of the year to repeal laws. The law banning women from wearing trousers was relaxed in 1892 to...

NEW YORK, March 28 (UPI) -- A New York politician has taken his message to youngsters to billboards: Pull up your pants. "Stop the Sag!" reads one of six billboards, going up up Monday in state Sen. Eric Adams home borough of Brooklyn. "We are better than this!" says another. Adams spent $2,000 in campaign funds for the billboards, which show male models whose pants are sagging below their underwear, the New York Daily News reported. "This whole sagging pants culture seems to have swept the city and the country," Adams said. "Children will be children. But as adults, we...

A Yolo County man who put cheese down his trousers faces a life sentence when he goes before a judge next month. Jurors convicted Robert Preston Ferguson of two counts of petty theft on Jan. 6. One conviction was for swiping a woman's wallet from a convenience store counter. The other was for stealing $3.99 worth of shredded cheese from the Nugget Market in Woodland. Officers testified that Ferguson put the cheese in his pants and was apprehended in the parking lot. Because of a lengthy criminal history that dates back 35 years, including six first-degree burglary convictions, Yolo prosecutors...

A German man mooning at railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks. The 22-year-old journalism student shoved his backside against the window of a low-slung double-decker train when staff forced him off in Lauenbrueck for travelling without a ticket, a spokesman for police in the northern city of Bremen said. "It's a miracle he wasn't badly hurt," the spokesman said on Monday. "This sort of thing can end up killing you." Instead, dangling by his...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Your pants size might help gauge your risk of developing certain cancers, regardless of how much you actually weigh, Dutch researchers report. A large waist and wide hips signal accumulation of so-called "intra-abdominal fat" -- the particularly harmful deep "hidden" fat that surrounds the abdominal organs and is linked to type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. "It has been hypothesized that clothing size is related to physique, and it was recently reported that clothing size appears to be a strong surrogate for obesity and intra-abdominal fat," Dr. Laura A. E. Hughes, of...

President Obama is committed to making sure middle class families do not see a tax increase, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday, after two top economic officials seemed to leave the door open to such a tax hike. "The president's clear commitment is not to raise taxes on those making less than $250,000 a year," Gibbs said, repeating Obama's pledge from the presidential campaign. That was after Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner suggested Sunday that taxes increases are inevitable. "We will not get this economy back on track, recovery will be not strong and sustained, unless we ... can...

Capri pants bare scourge of summer: ‘cankles’Cheeky gym campaign gives us yet another body part to worry about By Jacqueline Stenson updated 9:31 a.m. ET, Wed., July 1, 2009 Still obsessing about how your dimpled thighs, jelly belly or flappy arms look in a swimsuit? That’s so last summer. This year, there’s a new body part to fret over: the cankle. Hmmm, you may be wondering, what’s a cankle? Gold’s Gym, which has designated July as “Cankle Awareness Month,” defines it this way: “The word comes from the combination of ‘calf’ and ‘ankle.’ It occurs when the calf merges with...

A Myrtle Beach man was arrested Saturday morning after police said he tried to steal an 18-pack of beer, according to a report. Kevin J. Jackson, 31, is charged with shoplifting and was taken to the Myrtle Beach Jail. An employee of the Scotchman on Third Avenue South said he confronted Jackson, who placed an 18-pack of Budweiser in the front of his pants and fled the scene.

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A Pensacola burglary suspect was literally caught with his pants down while trying to run away, authorities said. An Escambia County sheriff's deputy responded to an alarm at a convenient store early Tuesday morning and reported seeing Robert Pittman, 37, exiting through a smashed-out front door while carrying several packs of cigarettes. Deputies said Pittman tried to flee, but the handfuls of cigarettes prevented him from holding up his pants, which fell down and tripped him before he could make it out of the parking lot.

No, it wasn't your imagination. Pants were in short supply along four lines of the New York City subway system on Saturday. The No Pants! Subway Ride, organized by Improv Everywhere each January, is a chance for New Yorkers to ride the rails unencumbered by the burden of jeans, slacks or trousers. http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/weird/Undeground-Pants-Down.html

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The man who demanded $54 million because his dry cleaners misplaced his pants is again appealing to the District of Columbia's highest court. Roy Pearson, a former administrative law judge who lost his job during the course of his lawsuit, petitioned the D.C. Court of Appeals for another hearing on his case Tuesday. A three-judge panel of the Court rejected his appeal of a lower court ruling on Dec. 19. Pearson, who wants the entire roster of judges to participate in the rehearing, said the panel did not acknowledge three of the four aspects of his...

Bradenton, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities said a man tried to steal several bags of frozen shrimp from a supermarket by hiding them down his pants. The Manatee County Sheriff's Office reported that an off-duty detective was shopping at a Sweetbay supermarket Sunday when he noticed what appeared to be a man with groceries stuffed in his pants.

A San Diego man who was allegedly poaching lobsters was caught with six of the creatures stuffed down his pants. Binh Quang Chau, 33, who has been cited four times for poaching, allegedly took the lobsters from the La Jolla State Marine Conservation Area. Department of Fish and Game warden Daryl Simmons said wardens arrested Chau when they noticed "odd bulges" in his pants. All six of the newspaper-wrapped lobsters were still alive and were returned to the ocean. Lobsters in the San Diego area do not have pincers.

A man who chose "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to "no it's not".Steve Jetley, from Shrewsbury, said he chose the password after falling out with Lloyds TSB over insurance that came free with an account. He said he was then banned from changing it back or to another password of "Barclays is better".

N.J. Councilman Starts Crusade Against Saggy PantsPaterson Politician Is Sick And Tired Of The Look And If He Has It His Way, Indecency Fines Will Soon Follow Reporting Christine Sloan Jul 15, 2008 8:08 pm US/Eastern PATERSON, N.J. (CBS) ― Instead of "stick 'em up," it will be more like "pull 'em up" now that fashion police in New Jersey have started a crackdown on baggy pants. It's happening in Paterson, where city officials want to put the kibosh on this form of fashion. Bart Johnson says wearing his pants low in a fashion statement, but one councilman is saying...