My son recently asked me what "battery on a cop" was, after watching "Cops" with me, and I asked him what he thought it meant. He blushed and responded quietly, "Electrocution?"
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I once asked my dad why Pugs had flat faces. He responded "because they ran into a wall"...— Kristy
- my husband believed, until recently, that the word "several" meant seven of something. — sheryl
- I used to believe that everytime a balloon was released , it meant that a child had recently died.— Samantha
- a sitcom meant that you sat while you were watching the comedyAnon
- I thought that serial killers had serial numbers like products did so the cops could identify them easier. — C
- I used to believe that undercover cops hid under covers/sheets. — Holly