police

When I was five, I tried to report myself to the police because I'd drawn on the furniture.

Anon

I used to believe that beat bobbies wore big helmets so they couldnt fit into patrol cars,so they had to walk!

Tommy B

i thought if you dialed 666 you got upside down policemen.

rufus

I wanted to be a police officer as a kid because I believe police officer's couldn't die.

Sam

No littering $500 fine
I better litter so I don’t get fined!!

Anon

I used to think that interpol was an international flower delivery company, although I have no idea how I came to think this, it certainly confused me when, in films, someone would be asked to check an ID with a flower delivery company.

Guy

When I was younger, I thought cops knew you didn't have a seatbelt on because the seatbelt light sent out a signal to their radio.

Kristina G

I used to believe that police officers were basically the entire criminal justice system. I thought they could arrest anyone at any time and send them to prison for as long as they wanted.
When I was about 5 or 6, a police officer visited my school to give a talk. I asked a question and called him 'Sir' but he told me to call him 'Dave', not 'Sir.
I immediately burst in to tears because I thought I had angered him and he was going to send me to prison for the rest of my life.

Anon

When I was little, we lived in a state that had a law that required all children under the age of 5 to be in a car seat. Well, I was about four or so, maybe even a bit younger, and I was already too big to fit in a car seat, so I didn't ride in one.

In case we were ever pulled over, my parents coached me into telling the police I was five. They would ask, "How old are you?" I would say "Four" and they would ask, "How old are you when the polieceman asks you?" And I would say "Five"

The thing was, I didn't understand the concept of what they were trying to do. I thought there was some law that when I turned five years old, my parents had to take me to the police station so the policeman could ask how old I was. So when I actually turned 5, I remember wondering when the policeman was going to ask me how old I was.

I guess if my parents had been pulled over before I was five, there would have been trouble. Lucky for them, it never happened.

Dirty Snoopy

When I was like 2 or 3, I thought that when the cops pulled you over to give you a ticket, which I heard my mom talk about a lot, that they would actually tip your car over, right there in the road.

Mike

I remember taking a tour of a police station and discovering they had a machine called a lie detector. this meant that any statement you could make it could tell you true or false whether or not you knew the answer. or anybody did.

Ria

From watching a lot of stupid kids shows that had this, I always thought that if you went to a store and tried to purchase something, but ended up not having enough money, that the clerk would call the cops who would come and arrest you. I believed that for years.

Jim Thomason....

when I was younger I used to believe that prosecuted meant that you would be killed!

tony

My older sister told me that if I sat on a white bench at the mall the police would come and arrest me. I believed her for several years and once she pulled me onto it and i started crying because i thought the police would come and take me away

pernel

I used to believe if someone sued you then you had to be killed.

Imaginative_Kidd

I used to believe that if your house was ever robbed, that the police department had to pay for everything you lost.

Anon

once when i was about 5 i was in the car, and i was just sticking my tongue out (i dont know why) and we drove past an old lady watering her plants in her front garden who saw me sticking my tongue out. i cried and cried for hours that night, terrified that she was going to call the police and id get arrested or killed for it...

me

I am from Canada. When I was about 6 years old and in the first grade I was apparently pretty gullible. I broke a boy in my class's "skin coloured" crayon and he told me that if I didn't give him my "skin coloured" crayon to replace his that he would tell his Dad and his Dad would send me to "kid jail" in the United States. I totally believed him and was terrified. However, I really did't want to give him my crayon, so I finally burst into tears and told my Mom and she clarified things for me!!

Seca

i used to think that when the police gave you a ticket,it meant you got to go to the circus or a show.i would brag to my friends that when i grew up,i would 100 tickets.

me

One of my parent's friends was a cop with a helicopter. and he said "If you ever see a helicopter wave to it." From that day till I was 11 I thought that all helicopters were filled with policmen whose job was to snipe you if you didnt wave to them.

Bubs