police

When I was about 6, I used to believe that Robocop is the best policeman in the world and that he's existing for real.

MC

I used to think that if you didnt throw your trash away at mcdonalds, you would get arrested. so one time when i went to eat at mcdonalds with my grandpa, he didnt throw our trash away. i ran out of there as fast as i could so the police couldnt get me!

Margaret c

When i was little, my older sister and cousin (who were 5 at the time) locked my uncle's keys in his car, so my uncle, slightly angry, called the police to get his car unlocked. Well my sister and cousin believed he called the police to get them arrested, so they hid under my bed until my uncle finally made me tell him where they were.

marlene

When I was younger, I was terrified of riding in a fast car, so to get my mother to slow down I'd shout that she was going to get a "lottery ticket" if she didn't stop speeding.

Anon

my parents had me convinced as a child that there were special kids police. whenever i had a tantrum they would literally get on the phone and tell the kids police that i had been bad and that they would need to come and get me. i would scream and cry and tell my mum to call them back and tell them i would be good (which she did)

Anon

One time i was in the mall with my dad and I was about 5 i wanted a cinnabon so bad i bugged my dad until a cop came up and my dad was like hey my son is being bad are you gonna take him away the cop said ill give him one more chance. That scared the hell out of me the rest of the day and i didnt say another word.

Flyte

I used to believe that if me and my sister were fighting in the car and there was a cop behind us, that he would pull the car over and arrest us.

Becky

I used to believe that if i lied or was naughty or whatever, that the police would come and put me in those huge things which mix up concrete.... and i really believed that and hardly told a lie since then ;)

Jeannine

i used to believe that you had to be very talented to be a police officer because you would just know if a person wasn't wearing his seatbelt, like a 6th sence.

Anon

When I was around 5, I went with my parents to downtown LA. My dad and I were waiting in the car for my mom while she was shopping at a store. We were apparently parked in a "no stopping anytime" zone (something I was unaware of at the time) and my dad ended up getting a traffic ticket. So then we just started driving in circles around the block, and I asked my dad why we couldn't just park. He said it was because he got a ticket. So I used to believe that anytime you get a ticket for any reason, you had to drive around the block a couple times.

Anon

My mother never got her licence until recently, when I was a child I thought my mum didn't drive because it was illegal for women to drive. I used to say it's not fair I wish I could drive and my parents just thought I meant I wished I was old enough to drive so never set me straight. Sometimes if I did notice a woman driving I would think she would get arrested.

Amy

My speech wasn't the best, so when my dad said he was going to ground me, I thought he was saying "drown me" because that's how I said it. I told him it was illegal and he would be in big trouble if he did that. It was a long time before I figured out what getting grounded meant.

Anon

my brothers told me that whenever you went to sleep you had to keep your arms inside the duvet. And if your arms were ever out of the duvet then you would get arrested by the police as having your arms outside of the duvet was against the law. I believed this until i was 8 when i saw that my brothers had their arms outside of the duvet.

Louise Brett

i used to want to be a police woman when i was young because i was terrified of going to jail and i throught if you were a cop you couldn't be arrested.

Joanna

When I was 4 i broke a window by throwing a stone, and my mates told me the police would come after me. For the next 4 years I was hiding whenever I saw a policeman.

Petter

When I was little, I often forgot to buckle my seatbelt. My parents constantly reminded me, stating that police officers can see everything. This lead me to think that they all had x-ray vision, and many times I tried to wave at them through the car door, to see if they would be able to see through it.

Ashley

When I was younger I used to believe that "Don't Drink and Drive" meant do not drink and drive any beverage at all so I was very upset when I saw my dad drinking a soda on a road trip, took me a while to realize they meant alcohol.

Luis

I'm from Spain, and here in my country we have a "Civil Guard" (which is a kind of police that takes part in militar-related stuff and mostly helps out people at the countryside), and there was also a Civil War, which took place a bit before WWII. As a kid, I used to mess up both terms (since they sound very similar in Spanish, too), and I used to think that the Civil War was just a time when the Civil Guard was so busy all the time.

Anon

I used to think that it was illegal to carry a very large sum of cash on your person unless you're on the way to the bank.

Anon

I used to think that breathalyzer tests were administered by people blowing good long puffs into the cops' faces and that the cops determined their drunkenness by the potency of the smell.

Dizzy dude