“Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, looking like a fool with your pants on the ground,” - General Larry Platt
Chances are your mom and grandmother don’t like seeing you walk around with your pants hanging low, so don’t be surprised if you get a gift this Christmas you will most likely never have use for.
Inventor Andrew Lewis has created Subs, short for sub-spenders. A sort of male garter belt designed to keep your pants up.
“It’s a simple waist strap with four suspended straps. The idea is the user controls how low they wanna sag,” Lewis said. “There’s a point past even for them their pants fall too low.”
Reactions to the new invention were mixed on New York City’s 7th Avenue.
“I like it, I mean we wanna be what we wanna be,” said one male passerby. “My wife would divorce me,” said another.
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Auburn junior quarterback Cam Newton collected the 76th Heisman Trophy on Saturday night at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square.
And he expects to keep it.
Newton, who was ineligible for a day this year because of his father’s actions, was asked if he had any concern that he would have to return his Heisman, like 2005 winner Reggie Bush.
“Two letters for you, my friend,” Newton replied. “No.”
Newton won the 2010 Heisman in a landslide — earning 729 of the 926 first-place votes, the third-highest percentage in history. His percentage likely would have been much higher but he was omitted from 105 ballots, almost certainly in protest over his eligibility issue.
Boise State junior quarterback Kellen Moore finished fourth, a school record. Stanford sophomore quarterback Andrew Luck was second and Oregon sophomore running back LaMichael James was third.
“Certainly there was a favorite we saw coming,” Moore said.
Newton has dominated college football for weeks — on and off the field.
His dad, Cecil, was implicated by the NCAA in an attempted pay-for-play scheme that would have sent his son to Mississippi State. He didn’t attend the ceremony.
Newton overcame that black mark with mesmerizing play on the field. He has accounted for 49 touchdowns to carry the Tigers to the BCS National Championship Game.
“I feel like I’m in a dream and I haven’t woke up yet,” he said. “It’s a great award, a prestigious award.”
Newton scored 2,263 points, more than double Luck’s 1,079. James had 916 and Moore 635.
Moore earned 40 first-place votes — quadruple the number he received last year, when he finished seventh with 100 points. He was named on 44 percent of the ballots — voters ranked players first, second and third — and received the sixth-most points ever for a fourth-place finisher.
Not surprisingly, Moore received his most support in the West (135 points) and his least in Southeastern Conference country (81).
For Newton, it was just the opposite. He garnered more points in the South than the other three finalists combined.
The win was an emotional moment for Newton, who has stayed focused despite the swirling controversy. He choked up before delivering an ironic acceptance speech.
“My parents,” he said, “do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed.”
The Heisman vote
Finalist voting for the 2010 Heisman Trophy, with first-, second- and third-place votes and total points (voting on 3-2-1 basis):
The city cop who fatally shot an off-duty officer in East Harlem was identified Friday as a 30-year-old Long Islander who has been on the job 4 1/2 years, sources said.
Officer Andrew Dunton is based at the 25th Precinct in Manhattan and - at the request of the district attorney's office - has not been questioned about the killing of rookie cop Omar Edwards.
Mayor Bloomberg said detectives were reviewing security tapes and questioning the suspected thief Edwards was chasing - with gun drawn - when he was shot and killed.
"The only thing that can come out of this is to improve procedures so perhaps it doesn't happen again," Bloomberg said.
"We all know policing is a dangerous job and accidents happen when people have guns in their hands, even legal guns in this case which they are authorized and trained to use."
The Rev. Al Sharpton called for a federal investigation "to sort out the facts" of the fatal shooting of Edwards, who was 25 and black. Dunton is white.
"Can police investigate themselves fairly and impartially?" he asked. "It would seem very difficult at best and unlikely in fact."
Both Edwards and Dunton were wearing civvies, but police rules put the burden on an off-duty officer to identify himself in any confrontation with other cops.
"The challenging officer, however, also has a responsibility to use sound tactics and judgement in approaching the situation," the NYPD Patrol Guide says.
It's unclear if Edwards ID'd himself as a cop when he turned - with the gun still in his hand - to face Dunton and the two other officers with him.
Sources said Dunton had his shield out - on a lanyard around his neck - and was wearing the color of the day when he yelled drop it.
"This is always a black cop's fear, that he'd be mistaken for a [suspect]," a source said.
The tragedy began just before 10:30 p.m. Thursday when Edwards, who worked out of a Manhattan housing unit, noticed the driver's side window of his car was smashed and spotted Miguel Goitia rooting around inside, police said.
Edwards raced to his car, which was parked on Second Ave. between E. 124th and E. 125th St., and grabbed Goitia. But the suspect managed to slip out of his sweater and escape - with the cop hot on his heels.
At the same time, Dunton and two other officers in an unmarked car saw Edwards running down the street.
They made a U-turn and got out.
"Police! Stop! Drop it!" two of them yelled, sources said.
Then Dunton fired six shots - hitting Edwards twice, once in the left arm and once in the chest, police said.
Edwards did not fire his weapon.
The cops didn't realize Edwards was one of them until rescue crews cut open his shirt to stop the bleeding and saw a police academy shirt. They then searched his pockets and found his shield, sources said.
Investigators said the anti-crime cops later nabbed the car-theft suspect Goitia, whose rap sheet includes five arrests for assault, robbery, and drugs.
Edwards' mother, Natalia Harding, said her son's dream was to be a cop "ever since he was a little kid." She said he had just married his girlfriend, Danielle Glen, and they have two kids - 1 1/2-year-old Xavier and 7-month-old Keanua.
"I'm hurt that they took my son," the heartbroken mom said between sobs Friday morning at her Brooklyn apartment. "That's my baby they took from me. And all I got was his last hug and kiss when he went to work [tonight] and he said, 'Ma, I'll see you when I come home.'"
Edwards' father couldn't fathom how such a fatal mistake could happen.
"If a police officer sees someone with a gun, you don't just fire without asking questions or trying to apprehend the person," said Ricardo Edwards, 72. "If the person was firing at a police officer, I understand."
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