I always thought that shoplifting is about lifting the shop from the ground.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- When i was really little, i thought that pharmacy was a shop where you could buy animals, like pigs and cows.Anon
- When there was an advert for a "3 peice suite" i thought it was a shop selling 3 P Sweet's!!!— Kate Parker
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to believe it was illegal to shop at Goodwill unless you were poor.— Aretia
- I used to think that a strip mall was where you shop naked.— WD