the law
Choose one of the following categories: criminals, drugs, police,or view the best beliefs in this section as voted by visitors. Here are the most recently added beliefs:
When I first heard of "The Five Families" of New York when my parents were watching the news, I thought a crime family was a literal family like a mom, dad, and kids, who all committed crimes together.
I used to think that it was illegal to carry a very large sum of cash on your person unless you're on the way to the bank.
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I used to believe that when someone joins the police force, they get their personal car painted and turned into a police car.
Trisha Gaurav
I Used To Believe That Prison/Jail Was Timeout For Adults/Grownups!
KellGirl
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I had a drug prevention coloring book. I ate snow at the time and wondered if snow was a drug. I was very paranoid about this.
Molly
When I was little, i thought a "loan shark" was a literal shark. I remember hearing my parents talking about loan sharks and thought they were going to get bitten by a shark if they didn't pay any money.
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When i first heard someone talk about "ripping somebody off", i thought it meant they literally ripped the person's skin off their body.
I used to think the sound of a heavy church bell was meant to be the chime of doom, and that God was ringing it himself as a ghost. Grim but still funny.
Judging by the sound of the word, I used to think an asylum was where everyone had to be silent. Well, it is a type of prison!
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