When I was little and I heard rape mentioned on TV, I misheard and thought they were saying "rake." I assumed it must mean hitting somebody with a rake. I wondered why this crime would have its own name, and why people would get in so much trouble for it.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- when i was little i used to think that rape was where you used a rake to attack someone— terrordrone
- I thought that "statutory rape" were meant to rape a statue.Anon
- When I first heard Stawberry Fields Forever, I misheard the lyrics as Strawberry Fields For Trevor.— Matt
- When I was a kid I thought rape just meant someone tearing the clothes off of a woman's body.— Matt
- When I was a kid I heard that the Beatles did acid and I wondered if they melted from it.Anon
- I used to think True Crime was a documentary TV show and not a genreAnon