Les Jones

Science > You Find the Metric System in the Strangest Places

Here's one place I would never have expected to see the metric system: in the booking room of a Texas sheriff's office. From The Smoking Gun:

Wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin (real name: Steve Williams) pleaded no contest in November 2002 to a misdemeanor charge of assaulting his wife during a domestic dispute. The numbers on the wall apparently indicate the metric system used by the Bexar County (Texas) Sheriff's office. Austin is about 6' 3", or 1.93 meters.

"Y'all, this is Dispatch. Be on the lookout for a caucasian male wrassler. Subject is approximately 1.9 meters tall, weight 95 kilos, and was last seen heading west on Reservoir Road at 100 kilometers per hour. Stone Cold knows the sleeper hold and should be taken down with a turnbuckle maneuver. Ten four."