Originally Posted by SeriouslyLost

Others have already covered all the fail in that first paragraph, although I would mention that it was my impression that the driver, not the passenger, got the fine for passengers failing to wear seatbelts. Could well have changed in the last few years as I haven't lived in NZ for almost a decade now.




You don't appear to know what the word "entrapment" means.




You have the right to contest the fine and request a Court hearing. From what you've said here, you would also lose. Why should they (or anyone) care that you didn't know the law and broke it and got fined for it?




Ya think?




New trend on tourists? You think the police officer, upon seeing you not wearing a seatbelt at a distance, could tell that you were a tourist? Paranoid often?

The officers have discretion in issuing fines. The fact that you are a tourist and they did give you the fine, based on my experience of NZ police and the way you've phrased things here, probably means you "earned" your ticket: IME, NZ police tend to be quite good with discretionary fines.




Classy.