More than 500 students and teachers were evacuated from a university in Melbourne, Australia, as a result of a smell initially suspected to be gas.
But it turned out the "gas" that students smelt at a Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology library was a rotting durian found in a cupboard.
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Durians are a prized fruit in South East Asia with a sweet and creamy flesh, but their smell can take some getting used to.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @01:57AM (1 child)
Or as students call it; "air freshener"!
(Score: 4, Funny) by MostCynical on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:04AM
Well, once they'd all left the building, it probably did smell better.
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