Up until the age of 13 I believed that cops told you to put your hands in the air so that if they chose to shoot you, you couldn't deflect the shot with your hands. Somehow I thought that if you put your hands in front of your heart, if someone shot you there it would just bounce off your hands.
A childhood belief about police

others believed things like this
- I believed you could dry your hands with hot water, until i got a chance to try it.— A A RENN
- I thought chicken's feet were witch's hands — Edward
- When I was a kid I thought babies where made when people hold hands and kissed nude...— Ryan
- I thought that the song "Hands off she's mine" by The English Beat was actually saying "Anton, she's my aunt"— Nate
- I used to think that when it rained,it meant God was washing his hands Anon
- I used to believe that cheerleaders didn't have hands, just pom-poms where they should be!Anon