[Voodoo Vince]

Polish restaurant told selling beer in litres is a crime

The owner of a Polish restaurant may end up in court for serving beer in litres rather than pints.

By Laura Clout
Last Updated: 6:41AM BST 06 Aug 2008

Nic Davison has been threatened with a court appearance and a £2,000 fine simply for using metric rather than imperial measurements in his Doncaster eaterie.

The infringement notice, served by Trading Standards, comes after a long-running campaign from Brussels to make Britain drop imperial weights and measures.

Although the law now says most goods must be sold using metric measurements in line with the rest of Europe, under 1988 Weights and Measures legislation, serving draught beer and cider in litres is illegal.

Mr Davison has now won the support of the Metric Martyrs Movement, which calls for traders to be permitted to sell goods in whichever weight measurements they choose.

Mr Davison, an accountant and his GP partner Dr Krystyna Ciuraj opened their restaurant Kuchnia Polska - or Polish Kitchen - in May.

The Polish brewer supplying them with Zywiec beer also supplies their glasses, which come in 0.3 litre and 0.5 litre sizes.

Although the restaurant has received no complaints from customers, trading standards officers told the couple they have 28 days to replace all the glassware, or face prosecution.

Mr Davison said: "This is nonsensical. It's barmy and ludicrous. Some jobsworth in the Trading Standards department has gone mad... It just shows the law is stupid."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...s-a-crime.html

[nimbus]

lol. it's absurd.

[o0MaRcUs0o]

for lame thing tio fined, LOL

[KongMing]

What stupid law is that?

[CaRe]

Shows that their country's law is stupid.

[*StarDust*]

Real funny.

[- Glen -]

Strange law.