It's safe to assume that the mothers of most University of Georgia students told them to always wear their seatbelts. Naturally, mothers say that because they want their children to be safe in the event that they are involved in a car accident. But for one man, not wearing his seatbelt got him into trouble for an entirely different reason.

The UGA student was arrested in Athens recently after a police officer noticed him not wearing a seatbelt and later discovered that he had a fake I.D.

The 19-year-old was pulled over by a police officer as he turned onto Carltron Street from Lumpkin Street. He told the officer he knew he was getting pulled over because he was not wearing his seatbelt and said he wasn't using it because he had "just spaced out for a minute."

As the student began to go through his wallet in search of his drivers' license, the officer spotted a North Carolina drivers' license. The officer asked about it and the student admitted that it was not real and that the picture and identifying information on the card were that of a friend.

The student was then arrested and taken to Clarke County Jail.

He later called the officer's decision to get him in trouble for a fake I.D. instead of just for the seatbelt violation "kind of crap." He is entitled to his opinion, of course, but to be fair, he cannot have expected to have gotten away with having a fake I.D. for long.

Luckily for this man, and for anyone else accused of a misdemeanor like this, he has the opportunity to speak with a local criminal defense attorney to learn if there is anything he can do to better his situation.

Source: The Athens Red and Black, "Student pulled over for seatbelt and arrested for fake ID," Josh Johnson, Feb. 16, 2012