The judge's directions were overly-specific but I think his intention was quite clear. If you're arrested and put in badly-designed handcuffs that you can open

The judge's directions were overly-specific but I think his intention was quite clear. If you're arrested and put in badly-designed handcuffs that you can open with no effort, I don't recommend taking them off, regardless. Historical lesson: I had just joined Microsoft in 1996 when it interpreted a court order literally, using this same attitude, and released a version of Windows without any Internet Explorer DLLs, which was of course not functional. Despite this being exactly what he'd ordered, the judge interpreted this as the corporate equivalent of a toddler having a tantrum, and things went (way) downhill from there.