Whenever my parents would see a cop in my small town, they would say, "There's John Law!" I thought that there was an actual cop in town with that name, since both of my parents have worked with the police and knew many cops. I didn't realize that it was a euphemism for the police until I was 20 YEARS OLD. We were in Hawaii and my parents said, "There's John Law!", and I felt like an idiot.

Natalie

When I was five I thought that if several police cars were going 100 mph on a residentual road that the back car would arrest the one in fron of his car and he would arrest the guy in front of him and so on. I was afraid that soon there would be no cops to protect my families uninsured savings account.

Danny

I used to believe that it was aganst the law to eat snow! and the police would come to take you away!

Katie Lyn

I used to think that Legal and Illegal meant the same thing (illegal)

Dhruv

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

I believed that the police had a laser beam like the radar detector that could tell if you had your seatbelt on and if you didn't you went to jail. My mom told me that when I was like 4 so I would always wear it. I found out otherwise when I was 16 years old.

Emily

I thought that if you went to jail you wouldn't die. I think it came from someone telling me that if I went to jail I wouldn't go to heaven and I kind of misinterpreted it. I remember imagining going to jail and being the only person left in the world (because no-one else ever went to jail of course) as humans had become extinct and i could see that crocodiles had taken over and they were crawling into the jail where I was.

Ashley

When I was about 4 my family and I took a road trip with our luggage "secured" to the roof of the old station wagon.Of course all the luggage ended up on the road somewhere between CO and OK. When my dad reported the issue he called the State Patrol.I thought he had called in the trolls who lived under the bridge and I was scared crapless-there was more than one troll under the bridge?They helped locate lost luggage?My dad was fuming over the lost luggage so I never did ask why he called the trolls.I am sure I believed that the state patrol had offices under all bridges until I was 10.

Bridget

I used to think that the word "statutory" refers to statues.

Anon

When I was little I was at a hardware store looking at cabinets. When I opened one, one of the henges broke off leaving the door hanging crooked. I was so scared that everytime the doorbell rang it would be the police coming to get me.

Sam

My mum told me that whenever I saw a police car\Ambulance\Fire Engine with sirens blaring shooting down the road, that they were 'just practising'. I dont think she wanted to expose me to the real world just yet. Thanks mum!

gambler

i used to think that when you moved house that some policemen would come and put your house on wheels and then get a car to drive it to a new place.

gina

Because police officers were assigned to "protect people" and "uphold the law," I thought it was illegal for a police officer to take up smoking cigarettes because it was inherently dangerous to oneself.

Josh

I used to believe that my pulse from when my head was against a pillow was a police man's feet stomping to come upstairs and get me.I always pictured them looking like ythose rescue heros but life size and with guns and much scarier. i was terrified that one would take me away to kjail and i would stay there forever and ever

The Prisoner

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

My mother always said I should write a book called, "I Useda Think.." Finally There's a place out there for all the rediculous things "I Useda think" as a child. One of them goes like this..

I Used to think that it was illegal to eat in your car. As me and my mother did this all the time, I always got so scared and put all the food under the seats every time we passed a police car.

Valerie

i used to be really scared when ever i saw a policeman.i used to hide behind i my parents.i thought that they would think that i had done something wrong and would take me in jail.even though i never did anything wrong.

andy

I believe that police ran Dunkin' Doughnuts and the reason they ate so many was because it helped them fight the bad guys.

It could happen...

Leigh