I was hit with one of those $42 dollar fines for not wearing a seatbelt. I think I mentioned it in the "how many times have you been arrested" thread. It is a dumb law. The worst that can happen is the removal of stupid people from the gene pool 
Dude, you realize you just dissed yourself? 
In New Jersey, I thought that failure to wear a seat belt was a secondary violation, meaning that you can't get stopped for it unless you were doing something else wrong, like speeding, running a red light, etc. Were you stopped for something else in addition to the seat belt violation?
One good thing about the seat belt laws is that sometimes, a cop will write a person up for that as a way to give them a break from a more serious violation. I know guys who were stopped for speeding, chatted up the cop, and ended up getting off with a seat belt violation, which carries a light fine ($37 in my state, I believe) and no points against your license, as opposed to fines in the range of $250 plus points for speeding.
It's not one of those issues that keep me up nights, in any case. I hope none of us ever has an accident to find out the benefits of seat belts.
Yeah I was doing 48 in a 30 MPH area. I had my seatbelt on but took it off
as soon as he pulled me over. He thought I wasn't wearing one but I wasn't going to argue with him; he let me off easy.
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