Red Hot Chilli Pepper Grenades

Deadly at any range

India has turned to the ultimate weapon in urban pacification: the bhut jolokia chilli. They will soon start mixing powders from the world’s hottest chilli into small hand grenades to be used in riot control and insurgency operations in the country’s northeast region.

The bhut jolokia, which measures 1,000,000 heat units on the Scoville scale, makes it a thousand times more powerful than anything you might have laying around the kitchen. That also makes it hard to fight the cops when you’re breathing in the stuff.

Indian scientists are also looking to coat the fencing around army barracks with chilli powder in order to deter animals from wandering in. Unless they like Frank’s Red Hot Sauce, it should probably work.

[Via Yahoo]