When I was preschool age, I thought that the firing squads and death squads mentioned on TV involved running over people with emergency vehicles.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to think running for president involved actually running somewhere.— Artimage
- I thought that ice cream trucks were the only vehicles that couldn't kill you if you got hit.
Anon - I thought that psychological torture involved forcing people to watch really sad movies!— Elviessa
- I used to believe that thunder was aliens entering the atmosphere, and lightning was them firing lazers at us!— Zeepoo-zoop
- As a child I believed that when a person was fired from their job, they were executed on a firing range. — damien
- At about age 7 I thought one could see the people running around on a map, if one looked hard enough.— Adam Smith