Spicy foods to be banned on American airplanes

[TechBear_Seattle]

Chillies aid Sumatra jail break

Eighteen Indonesian prisoners broke out of jail using an unusual weapon - the chilli pepper.

Prisoners at Pematang Sinatar jail in Sumatra mixed hot chillies with water in plastic bottles to spray at guards.

The fiery liquid temporarily blinded the guards, allowing prisoners to grab their keys and make the break for freedom.

The story continues at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5274924.stm

It just won't do, if airline passengers can mix hot chiles with their club sodas and use it as a weapon to take over an airplane.

:sarcasm: ?

[endarkenment]

1. Put your hands in the air and drop the burritto. nt.

[Mojambo]

2. As someone who has sat next to a person with intestinal fragility

I'm not altogether against this...

[etherealtruth]

13. The same line of thought I had ...

I wouldn't want to be sitting in the area of the "restroom" if someone did not tolerate spicy foods well.

[mainegreen]

They still allow carbonated drinks?

You could suffocate the pilot with the co2 in those!

[MissB]

3. I really can't top the first two replies to your post.

So I'm not even going to try. :rofl:

[TreasonousBastard]

4. And no Mentos and diet Pepsi. n/t

[Kutjara]

5. All food should be banned on planes.

Any of the toxic swill they serve on flights would make an excellent weapon. Just wave a tray of the dog-entrail casserole they try to pass off as steak (or chicken or fish) at me and I'd go into anaphylactic shock in a second. Even the smell of that offal wafting down the aisle is enough to induce vomiting and convulsions.

Airline food: the real WMD.

[DirtyJersey]

6. What's the deal with airplane food?

I mean could this stuff get any worse? And the guy next to me, he loves, he can't get enough of it. I mean, I'm looking for a dog to slip it to, this guy's asking for thirds.

[bbernardini]

7. And how about that traffic? Is that crazy, or what? nt

[patcox2]

21. LOL nt

nt

[newyawker99]

11. Hi DirtyJersey!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[FILAM23]

22. Considering that they no longer serve food on short domestic flights

I only eat on overseas flights and find the food
at least palatable if not good. Maybe its the airline I fly?

[noamnety]

8. poprocks are still okay, right?

*plots*

[warrens]

9. See the Ryanair homepage

Everybody STRIP!

[conflictgirl]

10. Is this satire?

:wtf:

I just watched V for Vendetta last night and it has me viewing everything even more skeptically than usual.

[TechBear_Seattle]

18. The title is satire, but the article is quite real

I've read about this on the AP wire, too. And think about it: pepper spray is really nothing more than capsicum oil (the very same substance that makes chilis "hot") in a suspension of water, exactly what these people used to escape.

[Generic Other]

12. I just discovered what you can do with mentos and diet coke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkkOUPYNs7I&mode=related&search=

:scared:

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. You may jest - curry really is banned on British planes

Banned Food
• Any liquid-based food products in packets,
tubes, plastic or tin containers
• Pasta or any other foodstuffs in sauces,
gravies or other liquids
• Jams and syrups
• Sauces
• Pastes
• Yoghurts
• Soups (carton or otherwise)
• Stews
• Curry

Permitted Food
• Sandwiches
• Crisps
• Fruit
• Vegetables
• Other solid foods

http://www.southamptonairport.com/assets/B2CPortal/Static%20Files/hand_baggage_21Aug.pdf

[TechBear_Seattle]

19. Ah, but the peppers themselves are a fruit

And you can get TSA-approved water on board the plane. Pepper spray would be much, much easier to make on board than rocket fuel.

[Vidar]

15. Ban jet fuel. It could be used as a weapon.

[cynatnite]

16. If they would just keep people off the planes...

that would solve the whole problem. :rofl:

[devilgrrl]

17. I was thinking that terrorists were going fart the plane down...

:shrug:

[OnionPatch]

20. I gotta say

I don't know what those Indonesian prisoners did to be in prison, but I gotta give them kudos for figuring out they could do this. McGyver would be proud!

[TechBear_Seattle]

23. All they did was make pepper spray

Most formulations of pepper spray start with capsicum oil, the very same stuff that gives hot chilies their "bite."

[mccoyn]

24. There is a myth that someone used salsa to dissolve bars and get out.

They did an episode on Mythbusters about someone who supposedly used salsa to dissolve the bars on his window and escape from jail. They were able to reproduce it by running a DC current through the salsa.