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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday May 01 2018, @01:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-is-that-smell? dept.

BBC News reports

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.

[...]

Durians are a prized fruit in South East Asia with a sweet and creamy flesh, but their smell can take some getting used to.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @01:57AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @01:57AM (#673998)

    Or as students call it; "air freshener"!

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by MostCynical on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:04AM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:04AM (#674000) Journal

    Well, once they'd all left the building, it probably did smell better.

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