Not exactly a speeding fine, but if you live in Vic and pay for your takeaway using your googlepay or applepay, beware. They followed up that their good officers are expected to use discretion, eg you might get off if you have the right smiling face, or get fined if you don’t look the part to the officer accosting you.
Victoria Police responded to the poll, revealing it was an offence to use your phone to pay in a drive-through and it carries a whopping $484 fine and four demerit points.
They explained that in order to use a phone as a payment method the vehicle’s engine would have to be turned off.
“If you intend to use your mobile phone to pay at the drive-through window, apply the hand brake, switch the engine off and then access your mobile phone,” Victoria Police wrote.
If this is not over-the-top ridiculous I am more out of touch than I thought.
