When I was little, my dad told me that the paddock things in the middle of the road (they're actually for crossing) that have grass in them were used for keeping bulls in!!! I beleived him until recently.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I used to believe that deer could only cross the road at the deer crossing signs. — Shellie
- I always believed there were boy cows and girl cows and boy bulls and girl bulls— karen
- sterilised milk came from bulls— kate mullins
- In first grade a boy told me that he could see girls naked with his microscope lens. I beleived it for years.— Jeanette
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that the "ped x-ing" signs meant "pediatrician crossing."— Jessica
- I used to believe that sky ends at the horizon and by crossing it we can go to another world..— Debasish Satapathy