Indian military to weaponize world's hottest chili
AP


GAUHATI, India – The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world's hottest chili.

After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized "bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili," to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects, defense officials said Tuesday.

The bhut jolokia was accepted by Guinness World Records in 2007 as the world's spiciest chili. It is grown and eaten in India's northeast for its taste, as a cure for stomach troubles and a way to fight the crippling summer heat.

It has more than 1,000,000 Scoville units, the scientific measurement of a chili's spiciness. Classic Tabasco sauce ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units, while jalapeno peppers measure anywhere from 2,500 to 8,000.

"The chili grenade has been found fit for use after trials in Indian defense laboratories, a fact confirmed by scientists at the Defense Research and Development Organization," Col. R. Kalia, a defense spokesman in the northeastern state of Assam, told The Associated Press.

"This is definitely going to be an effective nontoxic weapon because its pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hide-outs," R. B. Srivastava, the director of the Life Sciences Department at the New Delhi headquarters of the DRDO said.

Srivastava, who led a defense research laboratory in Assam, said trials are also on to produce bhut jolokia-based aerosol sprays to be used by women against attackers and for the police to control and disperse mobs.
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I go through a 3lb bag of dried jolokias (a big ziplock packed full ) every 6 months!! I put 'em on everything from burgers, and steaks to pastas and alcohol brews! These things are sOOOOOooo tasty i love 'em!!! and they are being made into grenades!?! lmao! I eat that s**t for breakfast! LMAO! Literally, on my eggs, BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

ROFL!!!

That's good stuff Drew! I use chilis in most of my meals as well, yes even ghosts...the only thing scary about a chili grenade is if they don't throw a burger at you as well!

All kidding aside though, enough concentrated chili could be a dangerous thing

I read that the LAPD issued a memo saying that pepper spray may not be as effective on suspects of a certain ethnic population known to eat a lot of hot peppers!

Making me want some.

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Originally posted by lad I read that the LAPD issued a memo saying that pepper spray may not be as effective on suspects of a certain ethnic population known to eat a lot of hot peppers!

mace's response to that was something to the effect of:
Thats like saying a lifelong steel worker isnt as prone to sword attacks a non-steel workers


i lol'd a little when i read that back when too

i hang out with quite a few fellows that hail from south of the border... i told them i liked hot food and they laughed, so at a BBQ last spring i brought some of my peppers, lost em at the Casabella peppers... they were to much for them, lmao!

I gave up on Scoville Units, Its weak, naughty, hot, mean, and *choke, cry & hiccups* in that order... i lost 'em at naughty

in all seriousness, even if you like spicy food.... and in my case, HOOJ-ly spicy food... pepper spray hurts like a M.F.
I didnt attack anyone... was at a party and some guy got too handsy with a girl, and i happened to be standing behind him... and i got a fair amount on me... and it was not fun... NOTHING LIKE MY EGGS, lol

hindsight tho, might go well with eggs :dunno:

I bought my last ole lady some(pepper spray) before we married. Had a bit of a spat at her house, but I was still there playing with her dog after she went to bed (mad).

Well the dog yelped as it was getting rough so was I a little but playing. She ran in there with that spray and sprayed it everywhere, saying don't you hurt my dog.

The windows were open and a nice breeze blew it right back on her and into her bedroom. She gaged for hours. I LMAO.

HAHAHAHA... Apparently didn't take your dose of TESTEMAX that morning? But revenge can be pretty sweet (or spicy!) :singing:

I don't get it - it's the pepper spice chemical thingy that's the active ingredient in regular tear gas anyway ... :puzzled:

No hot, spicey food for me. I grew up on meat and potatos. Nothing on them!! Well my parents like lots of butter on the veggies. But I don't even like that!!! Makes Sandy laugh all the time. She puts pepper seeds and hot stuff on food all the time. And I just cringe!

Kami, this explains it.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/question340.htm

Don't feel bad roc- a guy I work with goes red faced and teary with horse radish. Drew- you gotta' coin a "mace burger" recipe and serve it with a chemical weapons mask. I'd try it.:evil:

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
all these jolokias in the news... making me hungry for 'em all day... well, just got done with the MEANEST taco i've ever had
mmm tasty, lol
proud to say the sweat is rollin off my head, lmao!

heliboy... whenever i cook with 'em i wear a respirator and latex gloves... the house ventilator goes on, and if i can... open doors and windows (the fiance isnt too keen on cooking w/ pepper spray lol)

here's your Murder Burger (everything i make with 'em earns the title Murder [insert food name] i have murder sauces, murder vodka, murder ramen, you name it, i'ver used these peppers to murder it)
How To Make 'THE FOUR HORSEMAN BURGER'

this is now the ONLY way i make MY burgers.... all summer long, i'm grillin 'em this way

Wow had to save that link, the hottest thing that I eat lately is the Insane Sauce at Zaxbys.

I like it but the next day you got the screaming crapolas.

That 4 horseman looks mighty mean.

Might need some pepsi-cease-fire with that.
Tried any of it?

pepsi-cease-fire? no, what is it?

Something new I heard on the radio today. Cools the burn.LOL

A Pepsi drink that just came out I guess.

meh, i'll pass
i eat the stuff FOR the burn lol

:::Hardrock ::: if i send you a whole pepper.... you gotta eat the whole mama, and post a vid... or pics lol

That is the hottest pepper in the world, Right?

I'd be crying like baby.

I'm gona whimp out on this one. Need it with some food.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_spray
Capsiacin was what I was thinking off ... but that only seems to be pepper spray (strangely enough).

... we got tear-gassed in basic training - they put us in a tent with a tear-gas grenade and we had to take off the gas mask and say our rank, name and serial number then we could leave I got a long-arse name which sucked ... snot and drool everywhere, made for some funny photos

Can you actually do physical damage to yourself eating too hot peppers or too cold slushies?

choking hazzards... i've heard of people's throats seizing up with very spicy food... ive never seen it, but ive heard of it.... personally, i just get wicked bad hiccups if i a**-hole a mean pepper... and sweats, lol... but i usually dont eat the full pepper... however, ive eaten a couple full jolokias (not at the same time... one was bad enough), and i'm still kickin... and i'm a "cornfed Nebraska boy" LMAO!!!

Lots of nose bleeds out there from hot food tho... lol

my soon to be grandfather in law ate a nasty pepper in Mexico and lost his voice for the better part of four hours....

good peppers

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Originally posted by Drewculous my soon to be grandfather in law ate a nasty pepper in Mexico and lost his voice for the better part of four hours....

Hmm wonder if I could slip one into the wife ...

Kami we did that also in the military. But they had it in some kind of a can with a flame burning under it.

Mainly checking for proper gas mask fit, of course they made you take it off like you said.

We was told to watch out when we dried our washed uniform, that it would get us again but it didn't happen here.

LOL corn fed, they also called everybody corn fed f%#kers in basic.

Slip it to the wife?? Hahahaha, my GF could use a dose in the mornings. yadayadayada.... honey please, let me wake up first!!!

How do you do those quotes in post?

:D

Man I loved basic training - I could have done that all day everyday for years

The little person icon next to "REPORT" in the top right corner ...

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Originally posted by Kamikuza :D Man I loved basic training - I could have done that all day everyday for years The little person icon next to "REPORT" in the top right corner ...

Thanks, too easy. Took me 3 years to ask. LOL

AF basic was easy but I wanted the h@ll out of there. They would recycle you back to day one for no good reason.

Made me shave 5 times one day. Like a dummy I did. Should have just went and acted like I shaved. Theres was nothing else left to remove but more hide.

Yeah we had a guy who got "picked on" for shaving ... I could never remember to say "sir" to the officers and "corporal" or "sergeant" to the NCOs, much to their displeasure I had awesome fun with the camo face paint too :D

I love how easily threads veer on PKF. From peppers to basic training stories. :frog:

I enjoyed my time in the service untill Panama. I didn't like drawing a bead on a person in real time. But it was them or us.
Thats how I cope with it. :puzzled:

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Originally posted by InvertedForce I love how easily threads veer on PKF. From peppers to basic training stories. :frog:

Somewhere its,,,, oh from the tear gas, LOL

The shaving got me behind in everything. Had to run around to places and get caught up.

walked passed a female in uniform, turned to check her out and as I was looking at that tush, she had stopped and was looking at me (BUSTED) She was a second lieutenant.

I didn't know I was supposed to salute her. She reamed me good right out on the street in front of everybody.

For a few days I was saluting everybody. LOL