Is this the silliest "controversy" we've seen in Virginia or what?
Police, saying they were responding to citizen complaints, carted away two large promotional photographs from the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Lynnhaven Mall on Saturday and cited the manager on obscenity charges.[...]
The mural-like black-and-white photographs were taken from the store at midafternoon.
Bernstein confirmed that one depicts three shirtless young men from the back, walking through a field. The man in the lead appears to be about to pull up his jeans, which have slipped down enough to reveal his upper buttocks.
There's so much silliness here, it's hard to know where to start. For starters, as Vivian Paige asks, are these photos "Too revealing for the store but OK for the newspaper?" Second, the fact that this occurred in Virginia BEACH just makes me laugh -- have the prudes who complained about this ad ever been to a beach before and seen all the skimpy bathing suits (and ones practically falling down)? Hello? Third, can't you see stuff like this every day on TV soap operas and other fare from the boob tube? Fourth, who cares? Fifth, can someone get these boys some baggy pants, fast? Ha.