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FUNNY: ANTI-TERROR POLICE MISTAKE FISH FOR BOMB

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FUNNY: This fish was mistaken for a bomb

Thursday November 19,2009

By Julia White for Express.co.uk

ANTI-terrorist police sealed off an airport terminal after mistaking 140lbs of frozen fish for a bomb.

In a hilarious blunder, armed SWAT teams evacuated terminal one at Hamburg airport, Germany, when police spotted two blue plastic wrapped packages on an apparently abandoned luggage trolley.

But police smelt something fishy about the packages as they began to melt, filling the departure hall with the unmistakable aroma of rotting seafood, according to the Austrian Times.

"We had to assume the worst until we knew what was on the trolley. Luckily just the fish went off, not a bomb," said one officer.

  


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