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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

OP's video is not out of the ordinary. Most Australians just pay the fine regardless of what may have happened.

It's just too expensive to argue the point.

Yep, nearly impossible to argue the point, which is messed up. It certainly LOOKS like he's looking at a phone in the photos. It doesn't look like he's looking at a wallet.

I completely get not believing him. I'm sure they are blatantly lied to every day in much less believable ways.

The problem is "looks like he's looking at a phone" doesn't mean that he was looking at a phone. He could have been looking at a small pocket notebook. The photo is not clear enough to say for sure what he was looking at. And I'm of the mind that if you can't prove that I was looking at a PHONE, then you can't fine me as if I was looking at a phone. I suspect it's not illegal to look at a small notebook.

I'm glad that it got worked out.

We got a red light camera ticket once. Car was in my name, but was our daughters car. She pulled up to a red light, paused-ish, and then turned left on a red. They had still shots and video of the back of the car. I called and they said "not a moving violation, doesn't impact your driving record or driver's license." Our daughter did it, I just didn't want it impacting my license. Fortunately, it was mostly ruled not legal (or maybe ended up being a huge PITA) so everything around this area was removed.