16 November: Oklahoma's daft laws

Today is Oklahoma Admission Day it became the 46th state on this date in 1907. 

Like many places, Oklahoma has a number of laws that probably made sense at the time they were passed, but which seem completely daft in the 21st century. For example, there is a law that says your mode of transport must be tied up when left unattended - which made sense when most people rode horses into town, but now means that you must tie up your car before leaving it! Here are 10 things you are not allowed to do in Oklahoma, or in parts of it.

1. Bring an Elephant into Tulsa's downtown area.
2. Carry a bowl of fish on a public bus, or tissues in the back of your car.
3. Be a cat lady - it is illegal to own more than two adult Cats.
4. Wear boots in bed - or put boots on the hind legs of a farm animal.
5. Open a soda bottle without the supervision of a licensed engineer.
6. Take a bite out of another person’s Hamburger.
7. Drink out of bird baths, or wash your clothes in them.
8. If you're a woman, you must not do your own hair without a licence or gamble naked.
9. Make faces at Dogs.
10. If you own a bar, you must not serve Water unless you serve a Peanut in a shell with it, or allow any of your customers to pretend to have sex with a buffalo.