I used to think that if I put small piles of rocks in the road, I could make cars jump through the air like on "The Dukes of Hazzard." Then I tried it and the unsuspecting driver threatened to call the police.
A childhood belief about physics

others believed things like this
- I thought that when you pressed the hazzard button in the car, the dukes of hazzard would come and save you.— smfd26
- My mom threatened that if I didn't eat all my vegetables that the police would come and arrest me.— Lisa T.
- I thought the song "Karma Police" was actually saying "call the police" before I learned the title— Alberto Richardson
- I thought small cars grew up to become big cars— carhugger
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon
- I grew up in NY and used to believe that The Dukes Of Hazard took place during the Civil War.Anon