When I heard on TV that someone would get sentenced to "Life plus 20 years" in prison I thought that after they died their dead body would have to still be in the cell for that number of years before they could be buried.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- I thought the women in Prisoner Cell Block H were actresses banged up in prison themselves.— Reb Kean
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- I used to believe when a person was convicted of a crime and sent to prison, his lawyer went to prison, too.— Tara
- I used to believe that falling leaves were dead butterflies, and I always buried them in the back yeard.— waters
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine