Hot chili can stop you cold
Hot chili can stop you cold
The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world's hottest chili. It is 5,000 times hotter than a jalapeno pepper.
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.
"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 police to control and disperse crowds.
Share on Facebook
- Posted on March 23, 2010
Animals
Art
Your stories
This is a lot better then toxic stuff I suppose for training maybe but if you ask me we should stick with the toxic stuff against the terrorists simply because our governments so messed up we are either going to let them go or have them killed.
I think this is so cool to have military people in India use natural thing to help there country with terrorist. I also think it cool because there using a pepper 5,000 times hotter than the jalapeno pepper. I would hate to be a terrorist to India and have that grenade go off in front of me.
I don't think that pepper can make a cold go away. Only soup can. I had a cold and it went away by eating soup and other things that can help you.
This chili is cool I dont understand how it cures stomach problems. It is too small too be intimadating though. How does tear gas come out of a pepper.
WOW!!!!! I dont think that would be true, because my mom would eat things like that i dont belive it.If that was me i would try it and see if is really true i dont think its true!
Holy crap, and I thought jalapeno's where hot. I hope one of those never go of any where near me because i would be all messed up.
Holy wock! That's crazy. I can see that you would want less violent ways to stop crime, but chili pepper in your eyes would hurt like crazy! If I was those criminals, I would sue those police.
WOW! That's one hot chili pepper! I would hate to be the enemy. I would hate to be the enemy any day. I would hate to eat it if that pepper is hotter than a Jalipeno pepper.
I think it is really cool that a chili pepper could be used as a weapon. It is a great idea, because it is nontoxic, and something so hot could help with terrorism. I think it is a good military weapon, but I think it is a really bad idea for police men to carry the chili grenade around, because making ordinary people (in crowds) choke is just kind of mean. But other than that, a chili pepper weapon is really awesome!!!!!
its cool how they can make the 'ghost chili' in to a bomb. I wonder what happens when the bomb explodes? does it make the air red when it explodes or does it just iritate the air