TEXAS, April 1, 2011: Texan legislation is following the footsteps of a much older rulebook. After changing pi to 3 last year, the Texan legislature has now made it illegal for insects to have six legs.
State Senator John Smith explained, ‘According to Leviticus 11, which admonishes us on what we should or should not eat, it is made explicit that at least some insects have four legs. But today all insects defiantly have six, which is an abomination.’
About changing the value of pi, they are unrepentant. Smith, who is also a pastor, sees it from a religious perspective: ‘The people who claim that our rectification of pi caused a few bridges to fall do not know what they are talking about. Those bridges were fallen by God because of our nation’s sins!’
It is unclear if insects will voluntarily comply with the new law. The Texas Ant Association, an underground group, did not return any of this reporter’s calls.