Indian military to weaponize world's hottest chili

[Starbucks Anarchist]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100323/ap_on_re_as/as_india_chili_grenades

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.

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[SidDithers]

1. The trick is getting your enemy to eat them...nt

:)

Sid

[kenny blankenship]

4. Actually you blast it into their eyes and onto their skin, blinding them and raising painful welts

Your government is already doing this to street demonstrators, if you're an American.

[SidDithers]

9. kenny, it was a joke...

I know what pepper spray is :hi:

Sid

[Codeine]

2. "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the Curries of War!"

[Matariki]

3. The Aztec used to torture people with chili peppers

I seriously doubt you'd be 'rofl' if you got a lung full of the stuff.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. I'm laughing at the concept of weaponized chili.

Get over yourself.

[Matariki]

12. The police used pepper spray during the WTO protests

it really burned. I imagine the hottest chili in the world does much worse.

[EOTE]

15. Capsaicin is capsaicin.

To make pepper spray, the capsaicin of many, many peppers is condensed into a very painful concentration. I'm not sure whether the pepper spray from the bhut jolokia will be more or less painful, but I'm guessing they'll just be using fewer peppers to make the same amount. Even though jalapenos are rather mild by comparison, they could be used to make a pepper spray that's every bit as torturous, if not more so.

[guitar man]

6. My wife would be immune

I swear to gawd I have seen her eat things that would melt the lining of a nuclear reactor and not break a sweat. One person's weapon is another's condiment. :D

[Fleshdancer]

7. the spiciest chili is eaten in India as a "cure for stomach troubles"?

Did I read that right?

So as a weapon, it will burn my eyes but regulate my digestion? Leave to the Hindus to create a karmic neutral weapon.

[smiley_glad_hands]

10. LOL, thats hilarious. eom

[catbyte]

16. "Leave to the Hindus to create a karmic neutral weapon."

That's the funniest line I've seen in ages, Fleshdancer!

Thanks for the belly laugh,


:hi: :rofl:

Diane

[itsrobert]

8. Isn't mustard cheaper and easier to weaponized?

Has anyone ever tried Mustard gas? RHETORICAL QUESTION.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

11. Pepper/OC spray contains anywhere from 1,000,000 - 5,000,000 SHU.

This depends on the pepper % content, of course. The "heat" comes from the capsaicin.
Using Jolokia powder in grenades would rank on the low end of "pepper spray".
People have used super hot chiles to keep wild animals out of villages for centuries. :)

Myself? The sauce I used at lunch on my chicken patty sandwich and fries clocks i around 2,500,000 SHU. Good stuff.
I'd like to try a bhut jolokia pepper myself. 1,000,000+ scovs should be pretty fun.
Someday, I'd like to be able to win bar bets by using pepper spray like Binaca.

[arbusto_baboso]

13. A friend of mine was in the Royal Navy and talks about an exercise with An Indian aircraft carrier..

He mentions that a quarter mile of their port quarter, you could still smell the curry wafting over. Think what it must've smelled like ON the ship!

[Dr.Phool]

14. It works on Republican terrorists.

A couple of years ago, we had a big problem with them stealing our campaign signs in a congressional race. I got a couple of bottles of this shit called "Revenge" concentrate, which clocked in at one million Scoville Units, and started spraying signs with it.

They stopped disappearing in a matter of days.

A few weeks later, our press secretary was driving out in the country, and saw a persistent fellow taking a sign down with a hoe. He wouldn't touch it for nothing.

[joeybee12]

17. How can this NOT be from the Onion???? n/t

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

19. Because Onions aren't spicy?

It's serious. Where do you think the pepper content of pepper spray comes from? PEPPERS!

The capsaicin in peppers is what causes the heat/pain sensation. You extrcat it from the peppers and then mix it with a liquid.
Some peppers have more than others. It would seem the bhut jolokia has the most. No surprise that they will try to weaponize it.

[KamaAina]

18. So who will be the new superpowers in this brave new world of chili pepper warfare?

Mexico will certainly be a force to be reckoned with. China will do OK (ever eat the pods that come with kung pao?) As for us? A regional power at best, I'm afraid.

And watch out for the Jamaicans and their Scotch Bonnets!

[Riftaxe]

20. At least this explains the curry i had the other night!

It must have been a prototype!