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.
A childhood belief about police

others believed things like this
- When I used to see the sign 'police accident' I thought it meant that a police car had crashed.Anon
- I have always lived very near to a power station, and I used to believe it was a cloud making machine.— Kirsty Martindale
- I was told as a young child that if I didn't smile going past the police station, I wouldbe arrested.Anon
- I used to think that the police didn't know that we called them coppers behind their backs!— Chris
- I used to believe that I was the only person in the entire world who knew about my favorite ratio station.— Gillian
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara