Should I Pay or not?

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At the end of December, my boyfriend and I had gone out for lunch and just after we'd pulled out of parking lot, I was digging through my purse on the floor when we saw the telltale flash of red and blue lights behind us. I quickly pulled my seatbelt on, but the cop gave me a $167 seatbelt ticket when she came to the window. I had given her my old Alberta ID (I no longer live there, but hold onto it as a secondary piece of ID) instead of my driver's license which I didn't have on me (didn't tell her that, though), and she didn't notice, putting my ID # down as my driver's license #. Now because my ID is not linked to my driver's license in any way (I didn't even use it to get my license, told a white lie that I had lost it and used my passport and birth certificate instead, so I could keep it), and my address is not the same, I have a hunch that it probably won't affect me, so should I pay it or forget about it? I only ask because #1, it's obvious that the police around here were just trying to get their quota for the month since it was New Year's Eve afternoon and that was our only problem, and #2, I'm unemployed and can't really afford the ticket. Everyone says I should fight it since it's my boyfriend and I against one police officer (2 against 1) but that would mean HE would have to take a day off work to come to court and he can't afford that. What would you do?