I used to believe that if you dialed 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 that the police would come to your house and you would get in BIG trouble.
A childhood belief about police

others believed things like this
- i thought if you dialed 666 you got upside down policemen.— rufus
- When I was younger, my brother told me the police had an infra-red system and could see into everyones house.— Clare, Ireland
- I thought the song "Karma Police" was actually saying "call the police" before I learned the title— Alberto Richardson
- When I used to see the sign 'police accident' I thought it meant that a police car had crashed.Anon
- I wanted to be a police officer as a kid because I believe police officer's couldn't die.— Sam
- I thought that "Doube Bubble Toil and Trouble" was "Doube Bubble, Toilet Trouble" Anon