- 23 Feb 2021 13:50
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Well, PoFo, I regret to inform you that the Americans are at it again. An expectant father in New York state has martyred himself with a pipe bomb that he was putting together to celebrate a "gender reveal" party.
This comes a matter of weeks after a man killed himself with a shrapnel cannon at a baby shower in Michigan, and months after another "gender reveal" party caused catastrophic wildfires in California.
So, to the Americans on the board: why do you guys love doing this so much? When you're holding a party and heavily pregnant women are involved, I promise, cake is perfectly fine. There's no need to reveal the result of a coin toss with incendiary bombs.
This comes a matter of weeks after a man killed himself with a shrapnel cannon at a baby shower in Michigan, and months after another "gender reveal" party caused catastrophic wildfires in California.
So, to the Americans on the board: why do you guys love doing this so much? When you're holding a party and heavily pregnant women are involved, I promise, cake is perfectly fine. There's no need to reveal the result of a coin toss with incendiary bombs.
BBC wrote:Gender-reveal device explosion kills father-to-be
A father-to-be from New York state has died after a device he was building for his child's gender-reveal party exploded, according to police.
Christopher Pekny, 28, was assembling the device in the town of Liberty when it exploded just before noon on Sunday.
Police said the blast killed Mr Pekny and injured his brother Michael Pekny, 27, who was taken to hospital.
Gender-reveal parties are celebrations announcing whether expecting parents are going to have a girl or a boy.
Police have not specified what device caused Sunday's explosion. New York's state police department and its bomb disposal unit are investigating the incident.
A spokesman for state police told the New York Times the device consisted of some kind of pipe, without giving further details.
Speaking to the newspaper, Mr Pekny's oldest brother, Peter Pekny Jr, described what happened as "the freakiest of freak accidents that I could ever imagine". He did not know what had set off the explosion.
The death is the latest in a string of catastrophes to be linked to gender-reveal parties in recent years.
They can include prediction games, with the "big reveal" being made with fireworks and coloured smoke grenades.
But several large-scale parties have gone wrong, even resulting in several deaths.
A man from Michigan was killed earlier this month after he was struck by shrapnel from "a small cannon type device" fired during a baby shower, police said.
Two other gender-reveal parties were blamed for sparking wildfires in California in September 2020, and Arizona in April 2017.
The El Dorado fire in California burned more than 19,000 acres, destroyed houses, and forced hundreds to flee their homes.
"Perhaps you want me to die of unrelieved boredom while you keep talking." - Martin Luther