When I was 4, when I didn't like a turn of events in a movie I was watching I thought I could call the police and report it and they would arrest the moviemaker or something for putting that event in! I would "call the police" using my toy phone whenever something I didn't like happened in a movie, then waited by the window watching for the cops. Once a cop actually did drive by my street after I did this, so I thought the police had finally responded to one of my reports!
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
- I thought the song "Karma Police" was actually saying "call the police" before I learned the title— Alberto Richardson
- My mom threatened that if I didn't eat all my vegetables that the police would come and arrest me.— Lisa T.
- When I used to see the sign 'police accident' I thought it meant that a police car had crashed.Anon
- When I was five, I tried to report myself to the police because I'd drawn on the furniture.Anon
- I used to believe that if you did not keep your shoes tied, that the police would arrest you.— Kelly
- I used to think that the police didn't know that we called them coppers behind their backs!— Chris