Fun Massachusetts fact: The state Constitution (article XIX) gives every resident the right to have his or her representative or senator introduce legislation for them.
And so, now that the legislature is done raising your taxes and cutting your services, it gets to debate a law that would require moviemakers to only use Massachusetts-raised and approved pigeons in the movies they make here, the Herald reports.
At least H. 816 is to the point:
AN ACT RELATIVE TO PIGEONS IN MOTION PICTURES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Not withstanding any General Laws to the contrary, all pigeons that are used in motion pictures within Massachusetts must be licensed and banded within Massachusetts.
See it in its natural habitat.