They responded to Torromeo quarry where they found people who acknowledged holding a gender reveal party with explosives. Police in Kingston, a town not far from the Massachusetts border, received reports of a loud explosion Tuesday evening. The father-to-be who built the bomb was ordered to pay over $8 million in damages.A New Hampshire family’s gender reveal party was such a blast that it set off reports of an earthquake, and could be heard from across the state line, police said. This explosion ended up burning 45,000 acres of the Green Valley National Forest in Tucson. This couple used Tannerite to announce their baby’s gender, and just like in Iowa, the kit caused a bigger blast than intended.
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The driver was charged with reckless endangerment. Once the car stopped, however, it burst into flames. Car explosion in Queensland, Australia, 2019Ī car emitting blue smoke drove down a road in Australia’s Gold Coast announcing that a boy was on the way. The explosion sent metal pieces flying in the air, one of which tragically hit one of the guests and killed her instantly. When creating a device to reveal their baby’s gender in a cloud of coloured smoke, this Iowa couple inadvertently built a pipe bomb. Pipe bomb explosion in Knoxville, Iowa, 2019 The couple are now facing one charge each of involuntary mansalughter. This gender reveal party went up in flames (literally), starting a fire that burned 22,000 acres in California and killed a firefighter. Forest fires in El Dorado, California, 2020Ī pyrotechnic device being used for this big announcement, combined with the hot and dry California climate, was a recipe for disaster. The exact cause of the disaster is still under investigation. Photo: Quintana Roo Nautical Associates via ABC Newsįamily and friends gathered on a boat on Nichupte Lagoon off Cancun to watch as a plane flew above the water, trailing a sign saying “It’s a girl!” Excitement quickly turned to horror when the plane nose-dived into the ocean, killing both the pilot and co-pilot. The father was tragically killed and his brother sustained serious injuries. When a father-to-be and his brother were building an explosive device to be used at the gender reveal party for his new baby, it malfunctioned.
No one was injured, but the explosion caused the foundation of neighbouring homes to shake and form cracks in the walls. Explosion in New Hampshire, 2021Įarlier this year, 80 pounds of explosives were detonated at a gender reveal party in Kingston, New Hampshire. Luckily, no one was injured, but the family has been fined $600. The family shot at a target that was meant to explode in a cloud of colored smoke but instead created a small explosion that destroyed nearly half a hectare of the forest.
The most recent gender reveal disaster happened in Fort McMurray, Alberta where a family decided the woods would be the perfect location to have their party. You need written permission from a Forest Officer before detonating any exploding targets. Wildfire in Fort McMurray, 2021Ī new baby is something to celebrate, but be careful how you do it! A recent wildfire in Alberta was caused by an exploding target during a gender reveal party. Here’s a roundup of eight gender reveal parties that have ended in unnecessary damage, injury and tragedy. Not only do they put an unnecessary emphasis on an unborn child’s gender, but no party is worth the loss of one of the unborn baby’s relatives. In recent years, gender reveal parties have caused plane crashes, horrific explosions and deadly wildfires-which may be a good indication that it’s time to move away from extravagant announcements (or maybe even the whole concept of pegging a gender on an unborn baby!). But for some reason (cough, social media, cough), a growing number of moms- and dads-to-be are opting for increasingly over-the-top and dangerous ways to share the news-sometimes ending in injury and, in the worst cases, death.Įven Jenna Karvunidis, the woman credited with having the first gender reveal party ever in 2008, now says she regrets starting the craze-especially since the daughter she feted with a pink cake all those years ago now prefers to wear suits. Gender reveal parties have become an exciting milestone for many expecting parents, who use confetti-filled balloons or colourful cakes to find out and share their unborn babies’ “gender” (it’s actually baby’s sex, based on their genitals).
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