There's something fishy about these packages . . .

. . . quite literally!

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

Armed SWAT teams evacuated terminal one at Hamburg airport, Germany.

They leapt into action after 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.

"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.

Good thing they weren't trigger-happy, or they might have blown it in plaice! At least the scales of justice were served, this time . . .



Peter