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University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 3, Informative) by coolgopher on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:49AM (7 children)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:49AM (#674016)

    The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT, https://www.rmit.edu.au/) [rmit.edu.au] is not to be confused with Melbourne University (https://www.unimelb.edu.au/).

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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday May 01 2018, @04:09AM (1 child)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @04:09AM (#674030) Homepage Journal

    You're so right, so right. Fake News BBC is pathetic. As everyone knows. But their headline is much better. Another story ruined by terrible SoylentNews editors!

    • (Score: 1) by petecox on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:08AM

      by petecox (3228) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:08AM (#674048)
      The subheading 'evacuated from a university in Melbourne, Australia' is better.

      But I guess that matters not to anyone who has never set foot in Victoria.

  • (Score: 1) by petecox on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:00AM (2 children)

    by petecox (3228) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:00AM (#674046)
    Actually, the toffs insist on "University of Melbourne".

    But yeah, the story is about RMIT.

    • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:40AM

      by coolgopher (1157) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:40AM (#674052)

      Right, I stand corrected. Spot the guy who doesn't have a piece of paper from either of these fine institutions.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by MuadDib on Tuesday May 01 2018, @08:13AM

      by MuadDib (4439) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @08:13AM (#674074)

      Tell that to Western Sydney University...

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:46AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:46AM (#674053) Journal

    Changed, switched topic to dev/random.

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