New Mexico's New Anti-Bigfoot Searching Bill

[deifire]

Adult Marshall Teller may want to avoid New Mexico as a place to study cryptids.

UNM Bigfoot Imbroglio Spawns Bill Backing Bizarre Ban

"...[the bill] also bans publicly-funded searches for Pokémon, leprechaun, or even the bogeyman..."

Full text of SB 243

Comments

[froodle]

so like... how annoying is mars in full weirdness hunter mode? because new mexico just essentially BANNED HIM.

[deifire]

I feel like Dash would be able and willing to give extensive testimony on that subject.

I almost thought the draft future fic I have where Mars is off chupacabra-hunting in New Mexico was about to be Jossed by real life, but I note that particular creature is not on the list...

[froodle]

one: i really really want a scene where dash is providing evidence to the new mexico government about EXACTLY how annoying mars is when tracking cryptids, possibly followed by a less hyperbplic but more damning statement from simon

two: i guess chupacabra are still enough of a threat to livestock that theres more benefit to let people hunt them for study than outlaw it?

[deifire]

OMG, yes! The Trial of Marshall Teller.

(I am not allowed to write any new fic until I finish the stories I'm on. I am not allowed to write any new fic...)

I wonder if this bill says more about chupacabra than it means to.

[froodle]

It could be a missing scene!

"Mister Teller, can you tell us in your own words exactly WHY you were breaking into the Bigfoot family's home and taking pictures of their underage children?"

"Um..."

wonder if this bill says more about chupacabra than it means to.

"So shall we add a proviso to ban chupacabra hunters as well?"

"...no... because... just no."