Australian ‘Sex Toy’ Alert Shuts Airport

October 5, 2004

A report from Reuters News Agency demonstrates just how seriously airport security is being taken in Australia. It seems a “humming sex toy,” discreetly described by the Australian Security Services as an “adult novelty device,” shut down the airport in Mackay, 500 miles north of Brisbane in tropical Queensland state, for over an hour.

According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio service, airport staff heard a “strange noise” coming from a garbage bin. Cafeteria manager Lynne Bryant, reportedly disconcerted by the “furiously humming rubbish bin,” alerted police, who closed the facility while they investigated.

They were on the point of calling in bomb experts when an unidentified passenger came forward to identify the contents of a package left in the bin. Seems he hadn’t wanted to return home with the offending device, which, from the reports, wasn’t abandoned because it failed to function properly – on the contrary.

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  • October 11, 2004 at 2:15 am
    Mike says:
    Sounds like we need a new line of coverage for Contingent Loss of Income
  • October 7, 2004 at 1:51 am
    Nuke says:
    Far from INappropriately reported, I think this story was terribly under-reported. Many questions remain: How novel was the sex "novelty"? Why had it suddenly started humming ... read more
  • October 6, 2004 at 6:12 am
    CPCU in LA says:
    Well, almost anything is more interesting than insurance........and, from the prudish comments, this applies to insurance professionals, too (myself and the others who were al... read more

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