Bread-blamed airport evacuation becomes toast of Twitter

The one day an airport is evacuated because of a slice of bread stuck in a toaster, it happens to be raining outside.

Bread-blamed airport evacuation becomes toast of Twitter

Cork Airport yesterday became something of a Twitter sensation after it emerged its terminal was evacuated because burnt toast set off two smoke alarms, thereby triggering a mandatory evacuation.

Cue the online gags about ā€œa slice of misfortuneā€, ā€œonly in Irelandā€, and ā€œI’m going to try this in work.ā€

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