Author Topic: Metric Martyr (Read 963 times)

loulou · « **on:** May 07, 2007, 08:14:34 pm »

Calls for a posthumous pardon for "Metric Martyr" Steven Thoburn have ben made after the European Union scrapped plans to ban Imperial measures.

Mr Thoburn was convicted at Sunderland Magistrates' Court six years ago of using scales that could not weigh in metric units at his Southwick greengrocer's shop.

He died in March 2004, days after learning his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights had been rejected. He was just 39.

Now fellow campaigner Neil Herron is planning to press for a pardon after the EU confirmed it had dropped plans to make Metric-only measurements compulsory from 2009.

oldspice · « **Reply #1 on:** May 07, 2007, 08:16:22 pm »

Well I'm sorry he died, I really am, but metric scales have been available for at least 20 years.

smurfboy · « **Reply #2 on:** May 07, 2007, 09:06:47 pm »

Exactly. It's not as if he was wrongly convicted of murder! I would hope the EU have bigger fish to fry.

lorri · « **Reply #3 on:** May 07, 2007, 11:38:53 pm »

metric or imperial 39 is too young to die

oldspice · « **Reply #4 on:** May 08, 2007, 08:07:49 am »

Talking of pardons, I showed some of my college kids the Craig and Bently film Let Him Have It. They were talking about it for days.

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