Jaz and Garry Mott of Victoria, Australia thought it would be nice to share photos of their 2019 vacation with their Facebook friends. Unfortunately, eagle-eyed police officers spotted the photos and assumed that they’d been taken during mandatory stay-at-home orders. According to The Independent the couple was met at their door by police and “were handed fines of AU$1,652 (£840.70) each for ‘failure to comply with a direction given to a person in the exercise of a power under an authorisation given under section 199.'”
The Motts had trouble convincing the police that they were in error, which is unusual because police are well-know for quickly admitting errors when presented with the facts. In this case however, the police didn’t revoke the fine until the story made the local news, after which they quietly returned the money.
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