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I used to believe (for quite a long time actually) that when somebody was 'Raped' it meant that they had been attacked by a 'Rake' the garden tool used for clearing up leaves. I always thought it was a horrible way to be attacked... which I guess it is.
MarkyPants
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I believed that I could make myself small enough and still enough that a robber would not tell the difference between me and my stuffed animals.
Igster B
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When I was little I used to try to balance on the edge of the kerb as I walked along it.
Believing this to be "kerb crawling", my mum was pretty shocked when I loudly announced that this was what I was doing and that it was illegal!
Bassboy
I was told at a young age that rape meant killed by a knife. So on the news once, I heard that a lady was raped and then hours later shot to death. I was SO confused, and asked my parents to explain. That means I learned about Rape and Sex at the same time, in fifth grade!
Nocturnal Lucidity
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I remember reports of housefires on tv catching my ear. They often said that "arson" was suspected. I couldn't figure out why they couldn't catch this guy. They already knew his name...
Dale
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I used to believe that the term "being mugged" meant someone beat someone else with a coffee mug.
Matt Thiel
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I used to believe that when people said a criminal was going to "the slammer," that the slammer was some sort of machine that crushed people. So when Boss Hogg would state that he was going to put those Duke Boys in the slammer, I actually thought that he meant to execute them.
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When I was in second grade, there was a scare, someone luring kids into his car. Our teacher told us about a man in a green car when she was a kid "He yelled at us, and was taking his clothes off, being ugly..." She must have meant to tell us to watch out for ANY stranger, but her badly thought-out, stammering explanation came out as "ANY man in a green car."
For about three years, I FREAKED whenever I saw a man in a green car. If I was outside, I hid behind my mother. If I was in our car, I would duck down in the back-seat.
Beth
I understood that what I heard in stories wasn’t necessarily true, so I didn’t believe thieves actually existed.
Bjoern
I too thought that rape was when a man came up to a woman on the street & tore off all her clothes. I had a good reason for believing that, though -- it was what my Mum told me when I asked her what "rape" meant. To this day, I still have that image when I hear the word, even though I now,unfortunately, know better.
Susan
I used to believe that if I went to bed with my glasses on I would be more on guard against thieves and wierdos in the night.
Dee Mac
I used to believe that criminals were a breed of cattipilar that were master minds as I thout the two names looked simalar!
Quako
I used to think the words Prosecute and Execute both meant the latter. Needless to say i didn't often tresspass as a child.
Nathan
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Because of how people use the word `aggravate', I thought that `aggravated assault' must be a lesser charge than other assault, because obviously it's worse to attack without provocation.
Anton Sherwood
I used to believe the crime of "Murder" was when when someone had been killed by being shot up bottom with a shotgun.
LS
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In our town the slang name for police vans was 'meat wagons'. For an embarrassingly long time I believed that they actually carted off criminals in a butcher's van along with the legs of lamb and stuff.
Emma
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I used to believe that all 'bad people' (criminals) were short, unshaven and ugly and wore black-and-white striped shirts because that's how they were always pictured in storybooks. If only it were that obvious in real life!
queeneve
When I was a kid, I used to beleive that "There is always a law against doing anything interesting." .... and still today, i cant resist beleiving it..
Asim Qadri, Karachi
many years ago my husband andi were discussing peter sutcliffe's arrest. we said,"oh, he will plead insanity"insanity this" "insanity that"
our daughter, who would be,ooh probably 10 yrs old at the time,said but what has santy(claus) got to do with it?
then again, i always thought, as a child, everyone was happy when they got married. how wrong was I
maureen bell
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I believe my mother once told me that you had to go to a special school to learn how to be a criminal. I imagined all these kids sitting in desks learning how to rob and kill people. I also imagined they'd get homework assignments like, "Go kill someone."
weirdo
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