As a boy fond of throwing and catching, I believed that if a ball or frisbee touched a telephone wire, the thrown object had to hit the ground before being caught to knock the electricity out of it. To not do so was to die immediately of electrocution. My friends still make fun of my continuing trepidation towards catching anything that has touched a suspended wire.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- When I was 4 or so I believed if you touched a dead person you'd die too.— anonymous
- I once believed that if you touched hamburger meat, it would explode!— Dipaloe
- I used to believe that telephone poles grew out of the ground.— Jennifer (the blonde)
- I used to think that clouds could be touched. — Jaafar
- I used to believe you got warts if you touched a toad. — laura