Haha we have an embargo on one of our acft, can't remember which, but the aircraft air goes thru one of the holds so we can only do crabs in one not the other.

Speaking of ruining bags, that's interesting. When I was in MEL, DJ was bringing us boxes of crabs from HBA every morning to connect on us to HKG - all bulk holdable. Maybe they load bags in one hold crabs in the other? On an aside, from watching tiger i've noticed they only use one hold for baggage and the other remains empty on their A320s.

I recall a story from many a year back too where we did a Durian freighter charter. The whole plane was filled (around 100t) and the crew eventually had to don oxy masks and land due to the smell. Now we have to mention Durian on the NOTOC (other special load)