police

Because police officers were assigned to "protect people" and "uphold the law," I thought it was illegal for a police officer to take up smoking cigarettes because it was inherently dangerous to oneself.

Josh

I used to believe that there were fashion police that wandered the streets undercover, and if i wore something they didn't like they'd arrest me.
This belief started when my sister made fun of something I was wearing and told me to watch out for the fashion police, little did she know i took her seriously.

Stephanie

When I was a kid, around 4 or 5, I believed it was the law that people had to move once every year. That's how often we moved when I was a child.

Tom

My dad used to drive a lot with his job, and as a kid, I would go to work with him on a weekend.

I was always worried about him speeding, so he told me that the policemen let him drive fast because he had to go a really long way.

I believed him for years on that one.

Hollie

When I was 4 or 5, my older brother and I were playing out on our front lawn when a man drove up and asked us, "Is this Ellington Drive?" It was, so I told him "Yes." Later, my brother imformed me that it was illegal to talk to strangers. For months I lived in fear of policemen coming to arrest me for talking to that man.

Laura

When the police are talking about "rap sheets," I thought that the criminals were making rap music.

Anon

I thought cops were out to get me when I was three and I would scream "Get a gun! it a cop!" I just love my dad for teaching me.

Sara Mclen

I used to belive that the law was a number of rules on a notice board outside Buckingham Palace.

Nathan Vasey

Sometimes television re-runs are a good thing. A teenage neighbor had convinced my then three-year-old daughter that the police would arrest her and take her to jail if she was "bad." She chose to believe the teenage neighbor instead of my telling her it was nonsense. Well, the fear was laid to rest when she watched a re-run of Chips and noticed the recurring theme: Someone is in danger, and here come the police to *help* them. Thanks to Chips, my daughter learned to see the police as friends, not enemies.

Proud mama

when i was little, i used to believe that if a guy didn't sit down to pee, he'd be arrested (i thought that bc as a girl, we sit down, everyone else had to or else)

*shakes head*

My mother always said I should write a book called, "I Useda Think.." Finally There's a place out there for all the rediculous things "I Useda think" as a child. One of them goes like this..

I Used to think that it was illegal to eat in your car. As me and my mother did this all the time, I always got so scared and put all the food under the seats every time we passed a police car.

Valerie

Growing up in the 60's, I constantly proved to be quite the source of amusement to my siblings, especially since I was the youngest of eight kids in our family. Like the many times I overheard my eldest sisters cursing at police cars when they'd go zooming past us. They'd say, "Hey look, there goes another %$&^@%! Pig" and I'd just kept trying to look for the cute little piggies in the back of the squad cars, always wondering why the police would have those critters in their cars and how my sisters could see these animals in the back seat, but I couldn't. It took a few years, although eventually I learned that this was just another derogatory, slang euphemism they used! What I find even funnier now, is that one of them is actually a Sheriff's Deputy and they don't care much for being called a "Pig" one bit, but I never miss a chance but to rub it in that she used to call Cops that, all the time. haha!

Dazed n' Confused Redneck Ridgerunner

When I was young and I played up in the car, my mum told me to behave or she'd leave me in the car and DoCS (Department Of Community Services) would take me away. It was only natural for me to assume that "the docs" were mean men who stole naughty children from cars. How naive was I?

What's up DoCS?

Up until I was about 7...my mother always told us to NEVER stand up in the car, cuz a cop would pull us over...I thought that they had some sort of x-ray goggles (explains constant sunglasses) that they could see through cars and see if you were standing up...so I ALWAYS made sure I never stood up in the car......

megz

When my mom and her siblings were little, my grandpa used to warn them that they'd get, "a ticket" if they ever did something bad. He was a huge guy, but a gentle giant. Nevertheless, I don't think they ever dared find out what "a ticket" was.

Thom

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.

Anon

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

My mom would tell me that if I crossed the road without holding her hand I would go to jail. She told me Taxis were cops too.

Giselle

I used to believe that if you tore the tags that say "Do Not Remove" off a mattress or pillow, the cops would come and arrest me.

SlightlyStoopid

i thought that if you broke the law a officer would come and hit you with a night stick

Ron