-----Original Message----- From: kilopascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: April 5, 2002 18:23 Subject: [USMA:19267] Re: UKIP removes metric signs
>2002-04-05 > >This is why it is extremely important that Chris and his UK metric >organisation do everything in his power to have SI made legal for use on >road signs. Even to the point of having all signs legally changed to >complete the metrication process in Britain. > >Thanks, > >John > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ezra Steinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, 2002-04-05 12:38 >Subject: [USMA:19250] UKIP removes metric signs > >FYI, just saw this in the Daily Telegraph today. <sigh> >Ezra > > Poll candidate took 50 metric road > signs > By David Sapsted > (Filed: 05/04/2002) > > A UK Independence Party candidate at the last > general election stole dozens of road works >signs > because they were "illegally" showing distances >in > metres and not yards, a court heard yesterday. > > Tony Bennett, 54, a campaigner for the >retention of > imperial measurements, took the signs from a > pipe-laying site in Hadlow, Kent, last July. The signs in question were not "showing distance" and, therefor, were not illegal. It would appear thatTony Bennett should be charged with common theft. Duncan > Maidstone magistrates heard that the following >day > he had sent a letter to McAlpine, the >contractors, > admitting he had taken the signs, worth �40 >each, > and saying he would return them only if they >were > changed to yards. > > The court was told that 50 signs went missing >in a > fortnight. Bennett, from Harlow, Essex, does >not > deny taking the signs but pleaded not guilty > yesterday to theft and criminal damage because >it > was his "civic duty" to remove the illegal >notices. >
