SEX TOY SHUTS DOWN AUSTRALIAN AIRPORT

Sydney (dpa) - A sex toy left in a rubbish bin that was mistaken for a bomb forced the evacuation of an airport on Australia's east coast Monday. Mackay airport in far north Queensland closed down for an hour after a security officer became alarmed about what turned out to be a vibrator. ``It was rather disconcerting when the rubbish bin started humming furiously,'' cafeteria manager Lynne Bryant said. ``We called security and the next minute everybody was being evacuated while they checked it out,'' she told Australia's AAP news agency. She said, in retrospect, the humming did sound exactly like a vibrator, but that it was better to be safe then sorry. ``You can't afford to take chances,'' Bryant said.

I'm sure her colleagues, those famed models of restraint and decorum in the cosmopolitan and cultural hub that is "far north Queensland", are absolutely not asking her how she knows what the sound is like and are absolutely not taking the piss at all.