When I was about 5 or 6, I thought that when the police told you to put your hands up, that they were going to shoot you in the armpits. I often thought about how much that would hurt. I was about 11 or 12 when I realized it was so that they could make sure you weren't going to pull a gun or something on them.
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
- I thought the song "Karma Police" was actually saying "call the police" before I learned the title— Alberto Richardson
- When I used to see the sign 'police accident' I thought it meant that a police car had crashed.Anon
- When I was a child, I used to believe that armpits were private parts— Duda Gueiros
- When I was 10 I thought that if you smoked once God would shoot you with a lightning bolt!— tHOMAS
- When I was a little kid. I thought that police officers were a gang of mean people who bullied others.— LOOL
- When the police are talking about "rap sheets," I thought that the criminals were making rap music.Anon