the law

One of my parent's friends was a cop with a helicopter. and he said "If you ever see a helicopter wave to it." From that day till I was 11 I thought that all helicopters were filled with policmen whose job was to snipe you if you didnt wave to them.

I had a friend who thought a serial killer was someone who went to the store, looked at a random serial number, and killed that many people.

I always saw "DONT DRINK & DRIVE" signs around my town. One of them was a martini glass with a key going through it, I thought that it was a saw going through that sign, and i thought it was "DON'T CUT THIS SIGN IN HALF!"

When I was little and I heard rape mentioned on TV, I misheard and thought they were saying "rake." I assumed it must mean hitting somebody with a rake. I wondered why this crime would have its own name, and why people would get in so much trouble for it.

When I was around 6 or so, I always kept hearing people on the news talking about people being assaulted. For the longest time I thought that bad men were running around throwing salt in unsuspecting people's faces.

When I was little, I used to believe that "serial killers" were actuallly CEREAL killers, and would hide in cereal boxes, break all of the little bits of cereal, and then when you opened it, they would come after you. When I was about 4 or 5, I was listening to the radio with my Mom and heard about a serial killer on the loose. I immediately went to my neighbor's house and warned her not to buy any cereal because a cereal killer was on the loose.

when I was little, I loved George Michael's Careless Whisper. I used to believe that the line "guilty feet have got no rhythm" meant that you could find a criminal by making him dance, and if he couldn't dance, he was guilty.

when I first came to this conclusion, I excitedly told my dad that I'd found a new way to solve crimes.

There was a time when I thought serial killers put bad things in cereal and if you ate them, you would die. I would always pick the box in the very back of the bunch at the grocery store thinking it would be the safest.

When I was a little girl I used to believe that, if any parts of my body stuck out from under the blankets it woul be HACKED OFF. I believed this for so long that I still, even in summer, keep myself completely covered in bed.

i used to think that when the police gave you a ticket,it meant you got to go to the circus or a show.i would brag to my friends that when i grew up,i would 100 tickets.

When I was four my preschool class walked down the street to the capitol building to visit the governor. Our governor was under suspicion of embezzlement at the time and apparently I had heard bits and pieces of what this entailed. I told my teacher to hold onto her purse tightly so he wouldn't steal it.

i used to think when police arrested someone, they pass a hand saw trough their belly...

After having watched Cops for most of my young natural life, and my mother telling me that if I didn't put my seatbelt on the police would take me, I believed that cops just picked people up and took them away FOR NO REASON AT ALL. I thought that they could just come snatch you on a whim if they saw you and decided you were worth the effort. Every time I passed a cop car, I would slink down into my seat and watch them with suspicion.

One time my friend Sara said that if your name was Lizzie then Lizzie Borden would kill you with an ax when you were sleeping and since my name is Lizzie then I would always stay awake at night and take a long nap during the day.A couple nights later after Sara said that I heard a quiet laugh then two horrible screams and I think she was saying I would be next to be killed with an ax!

one night my parents got up and of course they were making alot of noise i layed in my bed fritened becuase i didn't know what was happening so i assumed that someone broke into the house and that they might come and get me so i jumped out of bed and ran to my parents bedroom and turned on the lights but they wern't ther so i freaked out then all of a sudden my mom came in ans said what are you doing and so she sent me straight to bed, i was so freaked out!!!!

There was this 'bad' kid in my neighborhood who would always give this huge fake smile and wave at passing police cars. When I asked her why, she said "If a kid waves at the cops, they HAVE to wave back, or they lose their jobs."