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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 Freeman on Tuesday May 01 2018, @06:46PM

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @06:46PM (#674258) Journal

    You figure right. I like food that smells good. Durian is pretty much the opposite of that. Some people claim to love it, but I think it's more like coffee. An acquired taste.

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