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A SUSPICIOUS GAS-LIKE stench aboard a high-speed train led to the evacuation yesterday of some 250 people in France before bio-chemical experts traced it to a package of stinky fermenting meat in a passenger’s bag.
Local government officials in the Burgundy region of central France said passengers aboard the train from Brussels and heading to the southern city of Marseille said passengers had raised the alarm over “a suspicious gas smell”.
The TGV train was stopped and while one carriage went on to Marseille, another containing some 250 passengers was evacuated, said a spokesman for the SNCF rail operator.
Specialist firemen with the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Risk (NRBC) unit were dispatched to search the train.
It was traced to a passenger’s luggage containing several items of fermented food, notably a “very smelly package of meat”, said the spokesman.
After two and a half hours passengers were allowed back on the train.
Passengers and security officials alike are on high alert for suspicious activity on board trains, after a heavily-armed gunman attempted to carry out a jihadist attack on a train in August, before being overpowered by other passengers.
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Having worked in Dublin airport and as the expression goes “seeing is believeing” I’ve seen everything from vacuum packed skinned monkey from Jo – burg, dogs eyes in a jar from Tokyo sliced rat from India. ..
People around the globe sure have some strange eating habits.
Yikes, tell us more Maurice!
You just put me off my lunch!
Meanwhile every Irish passengers bags are filled with rashers sausages taytos and Lyons/Barry’s teabags .
Hahaha Maurice, I’d say you could write a book about it LOL
Worked something similar myself.. The weirdest one I came across was minced dog meat. And get this it wasn’t from Asia but Switzerland.. They make sausage from it.
Egg and Onion sandwich? That alone would be cause for an evacuation!!
Beats my egg and onion sandwich!
oh dear god…….
One time a passenger on a plane that I was on was booted off because of the stench off him. Everyone he sat beside complained about him to cabin crew. Eventually the captain, for “safety reasons” decided to ask him to get off and get the next flight!
As Billy Connolly once said; this incident is about “as funny as a fart in a spacesuit”.
D’ont ever fart on a plane unless you want to be surrounded by a SWAT team.
never been surrounded and I’m prone to mile high farts
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