[snapplebobapple]

Even fines seem wildly disproportionate. Its one thing to regulate how one interacts with the gocernment, it is quite a lot less appropriate for government to regulate private transactions when the validity is easily and cheaply verifiable by either party.

[outop]

Regulating weights and measures is a basic function of government since Babylonian times.

[randombits0]

Sure but dictating what units to use is a bit overboard. A pound should be a pound and a kilo a kilo but what units I use in commerce is my business, not the state’s.

[autoexecbat]

While a kilogram is kilogram, a pound has an accepted definition and plenty of unexpected ones.

Is it a troy pound, a tower pound, a london pound, a metric pound?

[surgical_fire]

One of the main roles of governments is regulating private transactions.

Also, he should have done what every supermarket does around here and sell bananas at a flat price per bunch.