On Monday 17 Oct 2011 9:42:35 pm Eugen Leitl wrote: > professor of horticulture at New Mexico > State University and director of the Chile Pepper Institute, says that > chili peppers can indeed cause death — but most people's bodies would > falter long before they reached that point. "Theoretically, one could eat > enough really hot chiles to kill you," > Disingenuous is the word. The good professor isn't being too professional as he professes to prophesize on the matter.
One heck of a lot of things can kill you if you ingest enough and that includes water, cashew nuts and of course alcohol. Oh, and add chiliies to the list. I think the prof could have stated simply and truthfully that "being an idiot can kill you" Did you know that the act of trying to place a garland can kill you? A few years ago a man in Kolkata had a dream that the goddess Kali dwelt inside a tiger in Kolkata zoo and she had commanded him to garland her. One night the man, suitably fortified with booze and equipped with a garland entered the tigers enclosure and tried to garland the tiger. He died of trying to place a garland. On a tiger. shiv
