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top belief!
When I was young and saw 101 Dalmations, Scotland Yard was talked about in it, but I never really understood what it was. I imagined it was a very expensive-looking, fancy yard with statues, but I couldn't figure out what it had to do with catching the criminals who stole the puppies!
rinrinkokopop
When I was 5 I was in the car when my uncle had a minor car accident. The policeman asked to see my uncle's license, and I saw it briefly when he gave it to the officer. The license was printed on safety paper that had green and red swirls in the background. The officer said his license was expired and I believed the policeman knew it was expired because it had gone moldy (hence the green and red swirls).
Megan
top belief!
I used to think that the river police were there to stop naughty people from pulling the plug out.
Linda
I used to believe that if you were arrested, you were automatically put in jail. I thought this because many episodes of 1980's cop shows ended with the villain being arrested (if he is not killed), and the conflict of the episode is resolved as soon as the perpetrator is placed under arrest. The concepts of "trials" or "the possibility that the arrested person is innocent" did not occur to me at the time.
Matt T
When I first heard the term "banned", I thought that the police would come around house to house and put arm bands on those people who were to be banned, or excluded.
~Katie
top belief!
I always believed that having your dome light on in the car (while driving at night) was illegal. It was only a few months before my TWENTIFITH birthday that I realized it was a lie that my parents told us - I guess we asked them to turn it on one too many times during car trips! Scary how we believe everything our parents tell us as if it's gospel.
Angie
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I grew up in a very small town in Illinois. When my parents took me to Peoria (population about 150,000), I saw my first motorcycle police officer. His motorcycle was beautiful -- low-slung and white, with shining white saddlebags across the back. I just KNEW they contained ice cream.
Kate M.
When I was a kid back in the mid 70's they sere just starting to push the no drinking while driving law. One day while I was out with my aunt we stopped to eat lunch. She didn't finish her frink and she took it with her. I bit my tongue as long as I could then I saw a cop and I blurted out "AWWWWW Aunt Linda your not sposed to drink and drive!"
Leah
top belief!
when i was a kid, i believed the news far too literally. when the news reporter said "a man is helping police with their enquiries" i thought a nice bloke had gone to the police station on his day off, with notepad and pen, and said offered to carryout interviews.
Richie, Newcastle, Uk
top belief!
When I was little I was making my bed one day and ripped the "do not remove under penalty of law" tag off of the mattress. I hid the tag in my dresser for years fearing that I'd get caught and arrested. Funny thing ... I still never remove those tags from anything I buy.
Nancy
My oldest son believed that if you went outside without your shirt on the police would arrest you. We figured out later that he had been watching "Cops".
Will
The police brought my kid brother from somewhere. Don't ask me why they brought him to us though! I guess we were supposed to punish him for dirtying his diaper.
Runaway1956
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I'm American, and I used to believe that when people were bad, they went to see the police; but when people were REALLY bad, they had to go see the President of the U.S.
Candi
I used to think that the SWAT team (used when capturing dangerous criminals) was actually called the Squat Team.
Pat
top belief!
When I was about 6 I wanted to go on a bike ride with a friend but I had a skirt on, she told me I would need clips otherwise the spokes would get me. I thought the "spokes" were some kind of bicycle police who told you off if you wore the wrong clothes
Ella
i used to believe that if the police found out i had been bad, they would come to arrest me, put me straight to jail, and never let me see my mom again... that thought almost scared me to death!
little miss from norway
My boyfriend used to think that when the "bad guyes" had been in prison, they became cops.
What's really funny is that his father is a cop, but he never thougt of what his father might have done=)
Galejenta
In England, the news often reports that "a man is helping police with their enquiries". I used to believe this meant that some lucky individual was given a notepad and pen, and asked to go round interviewing people about murders and so forth, and got to be a pretend policeman for the day!
Andy
I knew that Scotland Yard was something to do with the police, but I couldn't figure out why the Scottish always had to solve crimes, no matter where in Britain they occurred.
My mom threatened that if I didn't eat all my vegetables that the police would come and arrest me.
Lisa T.
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