I used to think that interpol was an international flower delivery company, although I have no idea how I came to think this, it certainly confused me when, in films, someone would be asked to check an ID with a flower delivery company.

Guy

When I was little, we lived in a state that had a law that required all children under the age of 5 to be in a car seat. Well, I was about four or so, maybe even a bit younger, and I was already too big to fit in a car seat, so I didn't ride in one.

In case we were ever pulled over, my parents coached me into telling the police I was five. They would ask, "How old are you?" I would say "Four" and they would ask, "How old are you when the polieceman asks you?" And I would say "Five"

The thing was, I didn't understand the concept of what they were trying to do. I thought there was some law that when I turned five years old, my parents had to take me to the police station so the policeman could ask how old I was. So when I actually turned 5, I remember wondering when the policeman was going to ask me how old I was.

I guess if my parents had been pulled over before I was five, there would have been trouble. Lucky for them, it never happened.

Dirty Snoopy

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 younger I used to believe that prosecuted meant that you would be killed!

tony

I am from Canada. When I was about 6 years old and in the first grade I was apparently pretty gullible. I broke a boy in my class's "skin coloured" crayon and he told me that if I didn't give him my "skin coloured" crayon to replace his that he would tell his Dad and his Dad would send me to "kid jail" in the United States. I totally believed him and was terrified. However, I really did't want to give him my crayon, so I finally burst into tears and told my Mom and she clarified things for me!!

Seca

my mum told me she had heard an interview with santa on the radio where he had admitted that he didnt come down peoples chimneys at all but in fact visited every police station in the land to collect skeleton keys which would enable him access to every home in the land in order to leave all good boys and girls their appropriate presents.
this information meant i willingly suspended disbelief for an extra couple of years
also ended up quite traumatised when i moved out into my own home , thinking the police could get the keys back off santa and gain access any time they wanted

veestar

My older brothers did not want me, their little sister, to play board games with them. They told me that the (recommended) age on the box meant I couldn't play unless I was that age or older because it was against the law and I believed it and thought the games had tiny little policemen inside of them that would pop out and arrest me if I played it. I believed this for a really long time.

cathy

once when i was about 5 i was in the car, and i was just sticking my tongue out (i dont know why) and we drove past an old lady watering her plants in her front garden who saw me sticking my tongue out. i cried and cried for hours that night, terrified that she was going to call the police and id get arrested or killed for it...

me

I used to stare at our policeman when he went out on his bike, waiting to see if a blue flashing light would come out of his helmet!

yellownessy

I used to believe that if your house was ever robbed, that the police department had to pay for everything you lost.

Anon

I didn't understand how police got people to pull over, so I thought they had an invisible pole sticking out from the front of their car to push the others to the side.

Nate

One of my parent's friends was a cop with a helicopter. and he said "If you ever see a helicopter wave to it." From that day till I was 11 I thought that all helicopters were filled with policmen whose job was to snipe you if you didnt wave to them.

Bubs

I wanted to be a police officer as a kid because I believe police officer's couldn't die.

Sam

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

Lisa T.

my mum told me when i was 11 if i swore the police would take me to jail.

tg in blue

i used to think that when the police gave you a ticket,it meant you got to go to the circus or a show.i would brag to my friends that when i grew up,i would 100 tickets.

me

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

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

when i was little my family lived on top of a conveinience store that my dad owned and once i forgot my precious belongings, a poly pocket, a shiny penny, and a pencil that had my name on it. It was 12.00 and my dad had already shut everything so i went down and the alarm went off and i thought the police was going to arrest me and i thought the slammer was a place were you only eat ketchup.

Anon

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