when i was young, my aunt would tell me and my cousin that if we fart, she would call the children police and that they would come and arrest us in the middle of night! i would always try to hold it in or wouldn't sleep to see what happens if my brother farts!
A childhood belief about farting

others believed things like this
- I thought the song "Karma Police" was actually saying "call the police" before I learned the title— Alberto Richardson
- I used to believe that if you did not keep your shoes tied, that the police would arrest you.— Kelly
- My mom threatened that if I didn't eat all my vegetables that the police would come and arrest me.— Lisa T.
- My daddy used to think that there was a children-police that killed children who was bad— jonnie
- i thought that if you held in your fart you burp if you happen to hold both in you explode!— ahh!
- My brother once told me that if you burp and fart at the same time, you'd explode— Aubrey