On Tue, 7 May 2002 00:53:04 +0200, "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>(USMA 19946). ... > >At present the BWMA, UKIP, etc. are forcing authorities to remove metric >signs. Their next step might well be forcing the authorities and the legal >system to prosecute private people who have put up metric signs. In that >case, they will be shown as the hypocrites they are. They're already trying to do this. If you visit the ARM forum (accessible via the BWMA site, but not, you understand, condoned by the BWMA!) you will see that they report instances such as this. They then write to anyone they consider in breach, asking them to change the signs. If they don't, they might take the law into their own hands. >I have seen several private metric signs in Britain; all these persons may >find themselves in front of a magistrate one day. And of course, these >shining knights of human rights, freedom of speech etc. will either be >deafeningly silent or scream out in delight when a citizen, as distinct from >a trader, is fined 3000 pounds or jailed for 6 months for putting up a >metric sign. Never has any private person in a metric country (democracies >and dictatorships) been prosecuted for using illegal units. a) a trader cannot be fined 3000 pounds for a single offence, nor can s/he be sent to jail b) as admitted in the court last week (see the report on the BWMA site) there are no criminal offences related to road signs, so no-one can be fined. Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
