I used to believe (for quite a long time actually) that when somebody was 'Raped' it meant that they had been attacked by a 'Rake' the garden tool used for clearing up leaves. I always thought it was a horrible way to be attacked... which I guess it is.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- when i was little i used to think that rape was where you used a rake to attack someone— terrordrone
- For some reason, I used to believe that women only got raped on train tracks.
— Jessica Tinch - When I was a kid I thought that the wind was caused by the trees fanning their leaves...— GDP
- I used to believe that every country in the world had the same time. Guess I didn't consider time zones eh?— what are time zones again
- I thought there was a disease "Bigpox" that was like Smallpox only more horrible..— Xenomorph