'Explosive' Underwear Sparks Bomb Scare

Two bags with a note warning they would blow up if opened triggered a bomb alert at a Japanese university -- before explosives experts found they contained nothing more than women's underwear and a chocolate cake.

Police evacuated Kyushu University's pharmacology department and called in the bomb squad after a staff member found a white paper bag with a note that said "To Yoko, if you open this it will explode" and a pink plastic bag marked "This one too".

Police later found out two female students of the department had meant the parcels as a birthday present for a friend, and wrote the note thinking it would stop anyone else from touching the bags.

They left them in the mail room, emailing their friend to collect them the next day. But as luck would have it, the friend forgot and the underwear package caused an evacuation of the university.

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