the law: police

I used to believe that when you get in trouble Witt the police, in jail/prison they would call your parents. I respected them all! Until my 10-20 year old years thank god i did not get arrested ever in my life

I used to believe police officers can't get arrested.

No littering $500 fine
I better litter so I don’t get fined!!

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.

I Used To Believe That Prison/Jail Was Timeout For Adults/Grownups!

I used to believe that police officers were basically the entire criminal justice system. I thought they could arrest anyone at any time and send them to prison for as long as they wanted.
When I was about 5 or 6, a police officer visited my school to give a talk. I asked a question and called him 'Sir' but he told me to call him 'Dave', not 'Sir.
I immediately burst in to tears because I thought I had angered him and he was going to send me to prison for the rest of my life.

I used to believe opening a fruitsnack package from the wrong end will send you to jail.

I used to believe that there was something called the grammar police and if you say a lot of things wrong(like saying axe instead of ask), the grammar police will come to your house and give you a ticket for bad grammar. I got scared and tried not to make a mistake while speaking!

I used to believe that, if you did ANYTHING which was not allowed (for instance, if you touched something at a shop which had a "do not touch" sign), the police come to get you, and you'd spend a long time in jail just because of that.

I'm from Spain, and here in my country we have a "Civil Guard" (which is a kind of police that takes part in militar-related stuff and mostly helps out people at the countryside), and there was also a Civil War, which took place a bit before WWII. As a kid, I used to mess up both terms (since they sound very similar in Spanish, too), and I used to think that the Civil War was just a time when the Civil Guard was so busy all the time.

When I was seven, I had the notion that if you cried too much, the social worker would come to your home and take you away from your family. They would put you in military school, I thought that all bad kids were sent there to do militial training.

when i was a kid i used to think you were supposed to call 911 on someone if they ran a red light

My speech wasn't the best, so when my dad said he was going to ground me, I thought he was saying "drown me" because that's how I said it. I told him it was illegal and he would be in big trouble if he did that. It was a long time before I figured out what getting grounded meant.

My Dad had a government job and he used to bring home these pens that were stamped "property of US Government".I felt a little odd using them but one day I broke my one and the military police were going to come and arrest me!I had the evidence in my closet and waited.Fortunately they were too busy with the war I thought and spared me.

I used to think that police officers were like fisherman. Due to the fact that my father always used the term "pulled over", I thought cops sat at the side of the road with a fishing pole and pointed out cars to each other asking each other their opinions about pulling over that car, "hey what about that green Toyota?" For years, I was so scared that they would want to pull over our car with their fishing rods.

When I was a child, I always wanted to grow up to be a policeman because I thought that policemen couldn't get arrested!