>You also have to make it a criminal offense to change metric signs back to 
>imperial, or else anything gained by the Irish experience as far as cost is 
>concern will be voided.

It already is a criminal offense to interfere with signs.  However, the
fact that the signs were illegal themselves meant that replacing them
with 'legal' ones was not an offense.  Make the metric signs legal, and
you remove the barrier to prosecution.

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