the law : police - I Used To Believe

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When I first heard the term "banned", I thought that the police would come around house to house and put arm bands on those people who were to be banned, or excluded.

~Katie

I always believed that having your dome light on in the car (while driving at night) was illegal. It was only a few months before my TWENTIFITH birthday that I realized it was a lie that my parents told us - I guess we asked them to turn it on one too many times during car trips! Scary how we believe everything our parents tell us as if it's gospel.

Angie

I grew up in a very small town in Illinois. When my parents took me to Peoria (population about 150,000), I saw my first motorcycle police officer. His motorcycle was beautiful -- low-slung and white, with shining white saddlebags across the back. I just KNEW they contained ice cream.

Kate M.

When I was a kid back in the mid 70's they sere just starting to push the no drinking while driving law. One day while I was out with my aunt we stopped to eat lunch. She didn't finish her frink and she took it with her. I bit my tongue as long as I could then I saw a cop and I blurted out "AWWWWW Aunt Linda your not sposed to drink and drive!"

Leah

when i was a kid, i believed the news far too literally. when the news reporter said "a man is helping police with their enquiries" i thought a nice bloke had gone to the police station on his day off, with notepad and pen, and said offered to carryout interviews.

Richie, Newcastle, Uk

When I was little I was making my bed one day and ripped the "do not remove under penalty of law" tag off of the mattress. I hid the tag in my dresser for years fearing that I'd get caught and arrested. Funny thing ... I still never remove those tags from anything I buy.

Nancy

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

The police brought my kid brother from somewhere. Don't ask me why they brought him to us though! I guess we were supposed to punish him for dirtying his diaper.

Runaway1956

I'm American, and I used to believe that when people were bad, they went to see the police; but when people were REALLY bad, they had to go see the President of the U.S.

Candi

I used to think that the SWAT team (used when capturing dangerous criminals) was actually called the Squat Team.

Pat

When I was about 6 I wanted to go on a bike ride with a friend but I had a skirt on, she told me I would need clips otherwise the spokes would get me. I thought the "spokes" were some kind of bicycle police who told you off if you wore the wrong clothes

Ella

i used to believe that if the police found out i had been bad, they would come to arrest me, put me straight to jail, and never let me see my mom again... that thought almost scared me to death!

little miss from norway

My boyfriend used to think that when the "bad guyes" had been in prison, they became cops.

What's really funny is that his father is a cop, but he never thougt of what his father might have done=)

Galejenta

In England, the news often reports that "a man is helping police with their enquiries". I used to believe this meant that some lucky individual was given a notepad and pen, and asked to go round interviewing people about murders and so forth, and got to be a pretend policeman for the day!

Andy

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 mom threatened that if I didn't eat all my vegetables that the police would come and arrest me.

Lisa T.

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

When I was 4 or 5, everytime a TV would broadcast an EAS test, my brother would tell me it was an FBI alert and that a killer had escaped and was coming after me!

Sue

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

Once my sis was using the computer, and got an illegal operation error. Me wanting to use the computer, I told her that she should get off, as if it happened again the police would come and arrest her.

Martin

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