When I was young I used to believe that speed bumps were actually where they buried dead policemen. I guess I thought they wanted to continue serving their community post-mortem!
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that speed bumps were dead bodies that had been paved over.— Natalie
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina
- When my wife was a kid, she used to think that highway speed bumps were for the blind.Anon
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- 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