When i was little, I saw a sign in a store that said "shoplifters will be prosecuted."
I somehow got it into my little head that if you tried to steal your hands would be chopped off.
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
- I used to think that being fired meant they set you on fire.
Or they just chopped off your head.Anon - I used to believe that take a shower meant to go steal a shower from the storeAnon
- when I was younger I used to believe that prosecuted meant that you would be killed!— tony
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- I was a little Catholic girl, and I used to believe that deviled ham was chopped up devils.— Camille, Palo Alto, CA
- I used to think that serial killers chopped their victims up into little pieces and eat them with their cerealAnon