India plans hot chilli grenades

Source: BBC World

Indian defence scientists are planning to put one of the world's hottest chilli powders into hand grenades.

They say the devices will be used to control rioters and in counter-insurgency operations.

Researchers say the idea is to replace explosives in small hand grenades with a certain variety of red chilli to immobilise people without killing them.

The chilli, known as Bhut Jolokia, is said to be 1,000 times hotter than commonly used kitchen chilli.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8119591.stm

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As an alternative to water cannons and microwave weapons, we may soon need only to bring our own nan for a full meal.

Some chilis are so hot, that an overdose would cause chemical burns to the tongue.

And what will happen if you get that superchili-powder in your eyes? Blindness?

"The spiciness of the sauces is measured in what are known as Scoville Units.

The higher the number of units, the bigger the burn, although some manufacturers say that beyond about 350,000 units, the measurement becomes meaningless."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4530739.stm

of course, the chili has to be eaten, first ... then it's a gas attack ...

Never knew that...

to his wife that it is time she got out of bed to make breakfast. It can show multitasking by farting and snoring at the same time. Farting can be used to impress your drinking buddies. It can be an object lesson on what happens when you have cabbage, onion rings, pickled hard boiled eggs, beer, Beans and franks for breakfast.

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I could smell that post!!!

Thanks!!!

at a competing bicycle shop one hot Saturday. Their AC was not working so they were using fans. It made his job a lot easier. He swore by brussel sprouts and hard boiled eggs as part of his WMS* arsenal.


*Weapons of Mighty Stink.

I was in the military and I understand there are those select few who are lethal!

I've been told that if you simultaneously fart, burp, cough, sneeze, and hiccup, you die.

Or explode, I can't remember which.

:eyes:

BTW ... if you want to complain about generalizations ... go ahead ... I'm half-Polish ... fire away ...

:D

Water only give temporary relief but it spreads the Casein around more making the aftermath worse. So water is good if you get it in your eyes. get your head under a faucet and run luke warm water in your eyes for about 30 seconds. Keep your eyes open. Just remember that you open your eyes underwater all the time. Come to think of it if you have a swimming pool around jump in and go under for a while.

Chili dissolves in fat (which is why yoghurt drinks and sour cream cool the palette much more effectively than drinking water or beer).

Olive oil applied to skin helps
lemon juice can be applied to skin burns and seems to work better than olive oil
buttermilk applied to skin burns works

Casein (that which burns) is precipitated (detached from taste buds) in cultured dairy products (yogurt, buttermilk, sour-cream) and works more efficiently than Casein in milk.
Yogurt also has lactic acid and butter fat that act as solvents for Capsaicin
- Tomato, Lime, and Lemon juice are all acids. Drinking these juices will give relief.
- Fatty food such as peanut butter, bread soaked in Ghee will give relief.
- Sugar neutralizes the burning sensation efficiently. The heat in the chili peppers is quantified by the amount of sugar needed to neutralize heat.
Granulated sugar and Honey will reduce heat.
Pet Evaporated milk, full strength
isopropyl alcohol helps
Benadryl helps

(bring your stuff with you)

Use them to rub all over your body when they shoot chiles at you!

nt

casein is a protein found in dairy products.

The same claims are made about the Taser. Amnesty International reports 351 people dead in the US from Taser abuse. http://www.amnestyusa.org/us-human-rights/taser-abuse/page.do?id=1021202

I'm sure that the immobilized victims of these grenades will be treated with gentle courtesy rather than being bludgeoned about the head and neck while helplessly immobilized.

Do you know any riot police who are pacifists?

:nuke:

I picked the first four, of my nice, ripe habanero's yesterday.

That'll show those protesters! Give 'em diarrhea.

sounds like someone had stock in a pepper farm and wanted to start a bigger market for his/her crops

after Hannity agrees to get waterboarded

The active ingredient of pepper spray (or pepper grenades or pepper gas) is capsaicin - the ingredient that makes chili peppers hot.

The difference is concentration, measured in Scoville Heat Units (SHUs)

A jalapeno is about 2,000 SHUs. A habanero is about 50,000-150,000 SHUs. The Bhut Jolokia clocks in at 577,000 SHUs.

Police pepper spray clocks in at 5.3 million SHUs, compared to chemically pure capsaicin which is 16 million SHUs.

Not raw, that's impossible because it can cause permanent damage to your tongue, esophagus and sinus cavities.

Even cooked it was like being tear gassed (part of my law enforcement training).

I eat hot peppers on a regular basis, scotch bonnet and thai peppers are my favorite, but the jolokias kicked my ass. I thought I was going to die.

....but I don't think I need anything hotter than those lethal little green Thai chiles. One of them will heat up a large curry recipe very well.

A wild bird store I frequent recently sold be a package of chile powder to put in bird seed to keep the squirrels away from my back yard feeder (no harm to the birds; they don't have the taste buds for it). I have a feeling the peppers used might very well be jolokias; the instructions for use made the powder sound like nuculear material.....

ETA: I swear, everything in life relates back to the Simpsons!