Aussie dad unleashes over $2,115 fine for common act many drivers are guilty of

A Sydney father has spoken out after receiving a $2,115 fine when his teenage daughter was caught on camera wearing her seatbelt incorrectly.

Craig Cobb, a cryptocurrency trading mentor, shared an image of the alleged offence on social media on Monday.

'I just got a fine in the post because my teenage daughter had the seatbelt under her arm. $2115,' he said.

'It's not a fine that she wasn't wearing her seatbelt, it's that she didn't wear it right.

'Just a camera sitting there to watch our every move and raise revenue for the government.'

According to Transport for NSW, the lap portion of a seatbelt should sit across the bony part of a passenger's hips, while the sash should run across the chest and mid‑shoulder.

However, in the image shared by Mr Cobb, the sash appeared to be positioned off his daughter's shoulder.

Mr Cobb said his concern was not the fine itself, but what he sees as an overreach of government power.

'It's not the money of the fine it's just the nerve of it and how the government can just set up a camera and say you are bad, give me money. There is no crime here,' he said.

Craig Cobb (pictured) was fined $2115 after his daughter wore her seatbelt incorrectly

In the photo, shared on social media, the seatbelt sash appears too low on her shoulder 

The incident sparked debate online, with Australians divided over the use of surveillance cameras and the size of the penalty.

'I'd argue the amount of the fine is exorbitant, but your daughter was breaking the rules, she wasn't wearing her seatbelt correctly,' one said.

A second added: 'Crash your car with your daughter wearing her seatbelt like that to prove that it wasn't dangerous and the fine is trivial.'

A third agreed: '$2,115 for a seatbelt under the arm is brutal… but that rule exists for a reason.

'Wearing it wrong is almost like not wearing it at all especially in a crash.

Dr Raffaele Ciriello, a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, told Daily Mail in December last year that surveillance cameras are already 'everywhere'.

'It's already here to a large extent, but maybe in the next three to five years - ten years at most - I estimate that surveillance is going to be the norm,' he said.

'What it looks like is some form of Orwellian dystopia where we have that large-scale technology in every public sphere.'

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