One of my parent's friends was a cop with a helicopter. and he said "If you ever see a helicopter wave to it." From that day till I was 11 I thought that all helicopters were filled with policmen whose job was to snipe you if you didnt wave to them.
A childhood belief about police

others believed things like this
- I thought a tidal wave was acutualy a title wave because if the wave was big enough it had its own title!— Nate
- when i was little i used to believe that when you died a helicopter came to take you to heaven— purplefish
- I used to believe that everytime i saw a helicopter the A-team were in it on their way to fight the baddies!— Natalie
- i thought it was a law that bus drivers had to wave to each other when they passed— ande
- i used to believe that if u looked out of an aeroplane u could see god and he would wave at you
— georgina - Backstreet Boys - I want it that way? I heard "I was born on a tidal wave— gembop