I was recently pulled over by the police having been scanned by the NPR system (number plate recognition). basically I had only just bought the car so it came up as suspect. The police do this sort of thing every so often to clamp down on uninsured drivers etc.
They asked me a load of questions which they wrote on a triplicate style form one of which - I was surprised to hear - was 'What's my height'. The form only allowed for 'ft' and 'in' within the cells for numbers to be input - at the time I didn't ask questions so I don't know what they would do in respect of answering in metric measures. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [USMA:43669] Re: Metric personal data was Re: 24 hour time > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:24:13 -0400 > > > mm or cm should be used rather than use a decimal point. mm would be > preferable since all human dimensions could be in mm to avoid confusion. > Obviously this would not apply to medicine. > Stan Doore > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pierre Abbat" <[email protected]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:47 PM > Subject: [USMA:43663] Re: Metric personal data was Re: 24 hour time > > > > > > On Tuesday 10 March 2009 17:02:03 John M. Steele wrote: > >> Interesting. Has anyone ever insisted on giving metric height on either > >> a > >> US Passport application or a state driver's license? If so, how did it > >> go? > > > > I wrote my height in metric (it was 1.47 m back then) when I got my first > > passport, which was about 19 years ago. I don't remember how it went. I > > renewed it by mail. > > > > Pierre > > > _________________________________________________________________ Love Hotmail? Check out the new services from Windows Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/132630768/direct/01/
