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From our friends at DPA (Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH):

SEX TOY SHUTS DOWN AUSTRALIAN AIRPORT

Sydney (dpa) - A sex toy left in a rubbish bin that was mistakenfor a bomb forced the evacuation of an airport on Australia's eastcoast Monday.
Mackay airport in far north Queensland closed down for an hourafter a security officer became alarmed about what turned out to be avibrator.
``It was rather disconcerting when the rubbish bin started hummingfuriously,'' cafeteria manager Lynne Bryant said. ``We called securityand the next minute everybody was being evacuated while they checkedit out,'' she told Australia's AAP news agency.
She said, in retrospect, the humming did sound exactly like avibrator, but that it was better to be safe then sorry. ``You can'tafford to take chances,'' Bryant said.