Spicy Chili Smell Leads to Evacuation

[TZ]

LONDON (AP) - Super spicy chili sauce being cooked at a London Thai restaurant sparked road closures and evacuations after passers-by complained that the smell was burning their throats, police said Wednesday.

London Fire Brigade's chemical response team was called after reports that a strong smell was wafting from the restaurant in the heart of London's Soho district Monday afternoon, a Metropolitan police spokesman said, speaking anonymously in line with force policy.

Authorities sealed off several premises and closed roads. The Times of London described shoppers coughing and spluttering as firefighters wearing special breathing masks sought the source of the smell.

The paper said firefighters smashed down the door of the Thai Cottage restaurant and seized extra-hot bird's eye chilies which had been left dry-frying. It said they were being prepared as part of a batch of Nam Prik Pao, a spicy Thai dip.

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Guess its not just us American's who are getting overly paranoid about terra-ists....:crazy:

[QueenOfCalifornia]

1. I evacuated myself from a building once

when Paul Prudhomme was the guest chef at a party in New Orleans and he and 5 other chefs started some serious spicy cookin' in a poorly vented hotel facility --- I felt like I was being pepper sprayed -- After the hotel got some giant fans and started venting the toxic oils from the room we all came back -- but it was brutal. The party was really great, the food was luscious but the spicy air just about killed the room.

[DS1]

2. I'lll try a bowl of that

yum

[MrScorpio]

3. Bad spicy chili could lead to another evacuation

In my pants

[Crabby Appleton]

4. I'm impressed, I'll have a bowl. nt

[XemaSab]

5. Hey, this is series! Methane gas can explode!

:o