And much like "real life", just remember that publicly challenging an unjust, heavy-handed, or unequal application of the "law" can often result in a more vicious and draconian punishment than the spanking you got for the original "infraction".
"Authority" only hate one thing more than disregard for their "rules"--public challenges to their self-annointed "authority", and showing how ridiculous some "enforcements" are using things like logic, their own words, or the rules themselves to prove it...