I've watched enough "am i being detained" yt videos to know that this is very true. People get arrested for obstruction or failure to obey a police officer and then they get taken to the station for a few hours and then they are released without charges.

And you would announce "Mom, I'm going on the computer." And she'd yell back "I'm waiting for a call!" And you'd reply "Ugg, fine."

One of my favorite things about Calvin is he spends multiple chapters talking about the importance of following the civil law but then in the last section of the institutes he says you can ignore all that if the laws don't follow God's word.

This is why the most important scene in any movie about Rod would be Rod pondering whether his old friends Eric Metaxas would piss on him if he were on fire.