I used to believe that as soon as someone got hurt doing something, the gubment made up a law to prevent it from happening again.

Anon

When I was little I used to throw fits in Wal-Mart if I didn't get what I wanted and my mom told me that the Wal-Mart police would take me away if I didnt stop and from then on I was always good in Wal-Mart until I realized there were no Wal-Mart police around age 7

Anon

When I was little I used to believe that I was smarter than police because i thought that you could give a criminal a lie detector test and then you would know if they were the criminals or not I thought i was gona go up to police one day and tell them about lie detector tests and they would pay me and i`d become famous later i found out how these tests work and theyre not just a red button lighting up when you lie and a green one lighting up when you tell the truth

Laura

hye..this is the story of my friend..i think its the dumbest thing on earth! when she was a kid, she likes to wear digital watch. her mom don't want her to wear it coz afraid she wont know how to read the clock. so, her mom told her if she wears digital watch,the police gonna make her up in jail! she trust it and never wear it till today! da! well..what does a kid know! she realise it was a fake whan she was 10. silly! [ moms out there,dont act that violent will ya]

nicole

I used to think that the police didn't know that we called them coppers behind their backs!

Chris

When I was younger my sister told me that unmarked trucks patrolled neighborhoods and nabbed kids to bring them to juvie like the dog catcher. She then explained that juvie is a place where I would be suction cupped to the wall. Every time I saw one afte that I would whisper "there's the juvie truck". That wenton until I was about 7.

Mana Doll

When I was a child I used to believe that the spot lights in the sky were the police that were trying to find bad children.

Anon

When I was a kid used to think that if I tore the tag off of the pillow the police were going to immediately come to my house, arrest me, and put me in jail.

Ashley Michelle

when i was first going to school when i was six one day i said i didnt want to go my mother than said if you dont go for even 1 day the police come to your door and take you to jail for the rest of your life i actually believed this for a about 4 years!

Jacob

when i was about 6 my older sisters told me if you get too close to a car,and the siren went off,a bunch of police robots would come and eletricute you and bring you to jail.i actually believed them.

A.I.

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

I searched these boards and I think this one would be categorized under "police."

There was (and still is) a tag attached to pillows and mattresses:

DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF THE LAW....

and it's got some other gibberish after that.

One day when I was four, I tore the tag off the mattress.

I waited in fear for cops to come.

I thought somehow there would be some sort of "signal" that let authorities know that SOMEBODY did indeed remove THE TAG under PENALTY OF THE LAW....

But no cops came.

I threw the tag away in the garbage and hoped I wouldn't get into trouble! HEE!

Suz

When I was about 6 years old, I pulled the tag off a matress that says "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law." I believed that the police were going to come to my house and arrest me, so I hid in my room all day.

Lindy

On a Sunday when I was about 5 my Granda and I would go out walking and I would pick flowers to take back to my gran. After a while my Granda told me that the police had placed tiny cameras in the flowers, they would beam back the picture of the person picking the flowers and they'd be arrested for stealing. I've never picked another flower since!

Lisa

I used to believe that if you dialed 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 that the police would come to your house and you would get in BIG trouble.

Lydia

I used to think that the police just ran at random people arrested them and took them to the "indoor people zoo" where the zoo keepers had cattle progs (a large tazer) and they let free people throw stuff at you. I even compared the police to the nazis in the 7th grade. ha I was stupid. (a cop saved my life in the 10th grade and I reconsidered)

Marx

I used to believe that the police were the good guys that could capture all bad guys no matter what.
I also used to believe that once you break the law the cops would come, take you to jail and send you to court.
I used to believe that when you needed a cop one would come and do their job. That was until I found out that at best cops only catch criminals after the crime was committed and are not really modern day knights in shining armor.

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