my brothers told me that whenever you went to sleep you had to keep your arms inside the duvet. And if your arms were ever out of the duvet then you would get arrested by the police as having your arms outside of the duvet was against the law. I believed this until i was 8 when i saw that my brothers had their arms outside of the duvet.
A childhood belief about police

others believed things like this
- I used to think that you would get arrested if you didn't swing your arms when you walked in publicAnon
- We used to think that if you ran swinging your arms around, you would run faster. — Christine
- that if I flapped my arms hard enough, I could get airborne.— DeQuendre
- When my grandma was little, her dad would tell her that the freckles on her face and arms were fly crap.Anon
- I used to think that 'testicles' was the word for the arms of a squid or an octopus. — Emily
- I used to think Jaywalkers were people who walked briskly whilst swinging their arms.. whoops!— Lisa