Spice up your life - drive chillies into your eyes!

When driving, especially after a long journey, eyes can end up strained and even a little blurry, don't you find? But surely not even the most weary car trip can compare to the eye-watering sight served up by an Indian woman seeking her few minutes of fame.

A brave or foolhardy (depending on your perspective) Anandita Dutta Tamuli broke a personal best record this year. She took 24 of the world's hottest chillies and rubbed all of them into her eyes in just one minute!

How about that?

Stunned silence is maybe how you greeted this remarkable news. Anandita took the two dozen Ghost chillies and, well, thrust the spicy vegetables into her eyes.

Fantastic, eh?

Thanks to the Internet, you can watch this rather macabre spectacle via a YouTube video:

Anandita, from Assam, said, "I am very happy to have broken my own record. Moreover, I am very proud to have performed in the presence of a team of observers from abroad (British TV crew). They praised me for my world record breaking feat. I really thank them for their initiative in recognising my feat."

Us women at CoverGirl car insurance aren't really thinking Anandita has furthered the advance of woman-kind by this painful-looking act. But we reckon it was a bloke's idea to record this for a television programme, don't you?

# posted by Fuse @ 8:18 AM