I used to think that every night, if I got up there would be a murderer out there that had already hung my parents up on the wall and would kill me. That's one of the reasons I started sleeping with my door closed

Anon

I once heard my dad say that the judge was going to "throw the book" at a guy from our neighborhood. I really thought that judges hit people with books after that. It scared me to think what the Gavel was for.

Anon

I could not figure out what the term 'assualt and battery' meant..what did a battery have to do with hitting someone? lol

Brandy Lynn

I used to thinm that all criminals were like the bad guys on tv, but then I learned better and thought that there was no such thing as criminals!

Anon

when i was a child, i used to believe that when a judge would say to a criminal"you should be sentenced to 317 years in prision." i thought that when the person would had died they would burn the body to keep the smell away for the next hundred something years and put it in a safe not realeasing it untill the 317 years were up in to the sea.

j boogie

When i used to hear stories of rape on the news, I thought that people were being attacked by men with rakes.
Just makes sense, no?.. No I guess not.

Jonathan Beaton

I used to beleive the law "Don't drink and drive" meant i couldn't drink ANYTHING in the car. So i would always duck when i saw a police car.

Hesha

I used to believe that you should never take candy from a stranger, because there could be fire inside the candy! Uh-oh!

PiePieTootToot

I use to believe rape meant to attack or rob. So one day when my dad was going to the store late at night I told him "Be careful not to get raped!"

Tiff

When I was little I thought that getting rapped was playing music in a park.

Chelly

I used to believe that people that are mascots or in big animal suits were serial killers

Amanda

There's this coffee house in Knoxville, Tennessee that I've gone to with my mother since I was little. It had a huge deck out back, and there was another little part down some steps. I remember some Gothic girls telling me that there were "bad people" under the stairs, so don't go under them.

I feared the space under the stairs, and avoided that part completely. Even now, I'm still a bit hesitant to walk near there.

Jessica Tinch

When I was little and we would watch America's Most Wanted they said most of the people could be found in Florida, where I live and I thought that the murderer's were outside the window watching and would kill us for watching the show and trying to catch them. It terrified me!

Sarah

When I was seven I tried to make a movie play on a TV at the store. The TV went off and made a loud noise and I ran away because I thought I was in trouble. A lot of store workers came to check out the TV. I thought they caught me on camera or something so the next day when I went to the pool and saw a police officer I thought he was looking for me. I went over bawling my eyes out and told him the whole thing. (oopse!!!)

Kuro Kumori

I used to believe that suicide was a crime you could go to jail for because people would say "They commited suicide" like commiting a crime. I'm pretty sure I thought it was a combination of murder and robbery.

Spyke

I used to be trrified to bother those do not remove under penelty of law tags. I thought that if I pulled one off The police would know and come and get me

outlaw

When I was about eight years old, I heard something on the news about money laundering. I thought that money laundering meant that you'd accidentally left some money in your pockets when you did your laundry, and I couldn't see why it was such a big deal... but I made sure my pockets were empty whenever I put something in the laundry, because I did not want to go to prison for money laundering.

Athazagoraphobia