The chicken poop prison of Thailand: a story of unimaginable brutality

Many of you must not be aware of this method of torture, for it took brutality to the next level. If you thought chickens were harmless, cute creatures, you were right. But, did you know that chicken poop is lethal and was used as a torturing element in Thailand? The Khuk Khi Kai, also known as the Chicken Poop Prison in Thailand is the living proof of the fact!
How harmful is chicken poop?

Well, those who don’t know, the poop of chicken has a very strong and extremely suffocating smell of ammonia. It’s not possible to stand the stench for more than a few minutes for a human. In fact, if forced to do so, the smell can create myriad adverse reactions such as vomiting, headache, and extreme level of irritation. This can also lead to severe depression in human beings.

This is because of ammonia that enters the body and reacts with water and creates ammonium hydroxide. This byproduct is damaging and burns the inside of your nose, throat and respiratory tract. If a human or an animal is exposed to chicken’s poop smell for long, it is bound
to create some serious problems.

The tale of poop prison in Thailand

One time, chicken poop was used as a weapon against humans in 1893. It was the time when Thailand was occupied by the French and troops had constructed a tiny prison cell in Laem Sing in Chanthaburi province. This literally small (14 ft long and 23 ft high) rectangular structure known as Khuk Khi Kai (chicken poop prison) was created with red bricks and had two rows of ventilating slits on the sides.


The prisoners were kept on the ground floor while, on the terrace, they had built a chicken coop. The floor of the coop had small holes that would make chicken poop fall down on the prisoners below and would torture them.

If you ever visit Thailand, you can still see the prison which looks like a watchtower. It’s really hard to imagine that a place at such a peaceful and pleasant seaside location would have served such a wicked purpose in the past!