After implementation of new transit regs that require drivers to have at least three passengers to qualify for the carpool lane, New Zealanders have been scheming to trick the system.

Traffic cameras monitor passing vehicles, and anyone caught in the carpool lane without the required number of people gets slapped with a $114 fine.

That hasn’t stopped commuters from trying to pull a fast one. Among the list of fake vehicle occupants: blow-up dolls, shop mannequins and dogs dressed up as children.

Local college students are turning the problem into a business opportunity — they’re charging a small fee to get driven past traffic cameras and enforcement officers, and then they run back up the road to repeat the trick for other needy vehicles.

They’ve got to earn their beer money somehow, right?

That’s what happened to a hungry New Zealand man who’d apparently forgotten his wallet at home. Once he reached the front of the line at a service station with two packets of M&Ms and a bag of potato chips, he realized he didn’t have any cash on him.

Something like that could happen to anyone. The fact that this patron had wandered into the station after smoking pot probably didn’t help, either.

The 28-year-old’s munchies must’ve triumphed over common sense, because he offered the station’s clerk marijuana in exchange for the goodies.

As luck would have it, there was a police officer behind him in line. In his hunger “purple haze,” the man didn’t notice the police patrol car sitting outside the store.

Here’s hoping the person who showed up to bail out the man remembered a wallet.