hot damn!

I thought it was in my nightmares that I read this article about people punishing their children with a dab of hot sauce to the tongue, but I guess people really are crazy. Don't they recognize there's something a little off about using pepper as a weapon against children? A woman recalled to the Washington Post:

McGowen "couldn't connect" the idea of her tongue's getting punished for a lie, though she remembers that "it really did discourage us from fibbing. All I had to do was see the bottle. Even if [my mother] was just using it for cooking or adding it to a recipe, it put fear in me."

When will people learn that condiments are a force for good and not terror?