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. SEE ALSO: Woman eats two entire durian fruit because she couldn't bring them onto a train 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... More about Australia , Melbourne , Evacuation , University , and Durian from Mashable https://mashable.com/2018/04/30/durian-fruit-evacuation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Fe