‘Smell of gas’ causes library evacuation, turns out to be pungent durian

Durian, the pungent (and highly polarising) fruit has often caused people to dry-retch when its odour hits their nostrils, but over the weekend, the fruit caused an entire police-assisted evacuation.

In Australia, approximately 500 students and teachers were evacuated from Melbourne’s RMIT university on Saturday, after a “smell of gas” was reported within the library. Turns out, it was just a rotten durian fruit.

According to a statement from Melbourne’s Metropolitan Fire Brigade, firefighting crews were called to the campus just after 3 p.m., and an evacuation was managed by Victoria Police as a precaution while “an investigation was launched into the source of the smell.” Read more…

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