You joke, but something like that is a terrifying possibility considering where things like device-attestation is headed, combined with a lack of understanding of the technology, especially the local level (e.g. I'm sure probably most of us here on HN got into trouble in elementary-school for "breaking the computers" or similar - I don't expect a local provincial magistrate to be any more understanding-of-things than the fuming head at my school)
I received a 3 day In School Suspension during the 7th grade for "breaking" one of the computers in the library/school computer lab. What I had done was change the color scheme of the task bar/windows.
Made even more ridiculous by the fact that the computers had ephemeral drives and would re-image when they were restarted.
I wish I was that clever in school! The most actual mischievous thing I did was task schedule my boss's computer to change the desktop background to a photoshopped image of my head on Miley Cyrus' body every day on my last day at work.
I got expelled from high school for holding down shift while booting a windows machine, pre -98. Also suspended (the next year) because someone edited a teacher's gradebook in the "Mac lab" that he left open on an SE; of course the hacker that was expelled the year before obviously edited a single grade for someone they didn't know in a teacher they'd never met.
In 1988 I got in terrible trouble for changing the BIOS settings and "destroying a computer" at my school. I had wheedled all the admin passwords out of the computer teacher's son and then used them to cause all sorts of "fun."
I think I had simply changed the computer so it booted from a different device, and it would have taken about five seconds to change it back...