Last week, while shopping at Lenox Square mall here in Atlanta, we noticed there were far fewer thugs wearing their pants sagging off their butts.

This new change could be attributed to the fact that gaggles of gay men descend upon Lenox Mall in droves every weekend — and, they too, wear their pants sagging off their butts.

So you can imagine the dilemma faced by young girls who can’t tell the difference between the thugs they admire and the gays who admire the thugs.

The hilarious result is that more and more thugs are pulling their pants up these days to set themselves apart from the gays who roam the malls admiring them.

But that didn’t stop the Jonesboro City Council from approving a new ordinance to ban everyone from wearing sagging pants. That includes the gays and straights.

“People in Jonesboro don’t want to look at other people’s drawers,” said Mayor Luther Maddox, according to AJC.com.

The mayor noted that our young people’s lack of home training was affecting tourism in Jonesboro, a suburb just south of Atlanta.

“Jonesboro is home to ‘Gone with the Wind’,” said Maddox. “We get visitors from all over the world, and we don’t need to show them our underwear.”

We concur.