India Weaponizes World's Hottest Chili

(AP)  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.

[berlinfoto-2009]

Pepper grenades, sound non lethal, and I suppose that they are. I left the United States because of them. I abandoned the assets of my business my automobiles and my home and most of my personal possessions. Later to be sold by and attorney for me
I was being peppered every time I turned my back. Pepperballs, you simply cannot trust the police with a lethal or non lethal weapon that leaves no ballistics or evidence. I today have photographs of the roof of my former home that show the damage done by an estimated ten thousand impacts of Pepperballs. Some agency owes me damages, beyond a doubt, the law and the facts supports this claim.
I have very little respect for my fellow Americans, who had knowledge that this was being done to me, and turned their backs on this. It was my, not turning my back on abuse, by law enforcement officers that in their minds, justified their harassment of me. The police hate the constitution, and refuse to abide by it, they only enforce those rights that the courts demand that they do, such as Miranda.

[rwsmith29456]

Um. Isn't that what we call 'pepper spray'?

[formrusmcsgt]

I grew and ate Habaneros for 30 years.

I now have 6 bhut jalokia in the garden.

Can't wait.

[meincalifornia]

tastes really good pickled

[ibsteve2u]

You either chill out, or you'll be chillied out...

[krusenjames]

The Chili Bomb? I love it!

[mrsherman]

HOT TAMALE! (Sorry, I had to "say" it.)

[krusenjames]

Better you, than me!