Gender-reveal device explosion kills father-to-be

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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 device explosion kills father-to-be
 

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As if we need more evidence that the whole idea is inane just in how it's become more of a spectacle to out do everyone else instead of the original idea, which the person that started the trend has voiced strong objections to for various reasons, this kind of incident icing on the cake of the core issue I won't breach because of ToS on the forums.

One of these parties had a pyrotechnic situation that started one of those awful wildfires last fall, the things should be consigned to the garbage at this point with how people have to be so extra on the practice instead of doing anything that might just be actually celebrating a coming child without attention seeking theatrics
 
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Apparently that's so 2018.

Gotta go back earlier as one Arizona wildfire was started by a gender reveal party in 2017. I just don't understand these things. I must be too old as I don't watch all these newfangled apps and contraptions, and I'm only 52....
 
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Yeah we just did a cake...and not an exploding one! Poor guy....poorer family! :(

Here is an idea. A berry cake with frosting. So the actual cake is covered by the frosting. Cutting the cake is the reveal. Strawberry (pink) for a girl, blueberry for a boy.

I like cake!
 
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As if we need more evidence that the whole idea is inane just in how it's become more of a spectacle to out do everyone else instead of the original idea, which the person that started the trend has voiced strong objections to for various reasons, this kind of incident icing on the cake of the core issue I won't breach because of ToS on the forums.

One of these parties had a pyrotechnic situation that started one of those awful wildfires last fall, the things should be consigned to the garbage at this point with how people have to be so extra on the practice instead of doing anything that might just be actually celebrating a coming child without attention seeking theatrics
Gender reveal is another stupid result of the social media"Look at me!" age.

It is a terrible tragedy, but let this be a cautionary tale.
 
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According to the article:
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.​

DUDE WAS MAKING A PIPE BOMB!!!!!

Sigh... maybe a meteor should hit us...
 
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Gotta go back earlier as one Arizona wildfire was started by a gender reveal party in 2017. I just don't understand these things. I must be too old as I don't watch all these newfangled apps and contraptions, and I'm only 52....
Last year a fire happened in CA. Because of a gender reveal party. During a heat wave.
 
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I agree that it's "look at me" culture. If you must , just pop a balloon filled with pink or blue confetti or cut a cake or take the sonogram out of an envelope and then turn it around to show with a hairbow for a girl or a bowtie for a boy. Not everything has to be explosions.
 
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I agree that it's "look at me" culture. If you must , just pop a balloon filled with pink or blue confetti or cut a cake or take the sonogram out of an envelope and then turn it around to show with a hairbow for a girl or a bowtie for a boy. Not everything has to be explosions.

Or have an expensive registry and send shower invitations to everybody with a checkbook or credit card.
 
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Or have an expensive registry and send shower invitations to everybody with a checkbook or credit card.

My daughter is moving out in two weeks... please send money so I can buy new furniture to create my new den. :D
 
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Gender reveal is another stupid result of the social media"Look at me!" age.

It is a terrible tragedy, but let this be a cautionary tale.
At least the originator of that tradition has tried to emphasize the damaging aspects of it, though I haven't seen their statement in full.

Cautionary tales have happened for a few years now with gender reveal parties causing fires and related damage, we're not learning because we prefer to encourage ridiculous traditions because they make us feel good instead of reconfiguring them
 
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I agree that it's "look at me" culture. If you must , just pop a balloon filled with pink or blue confetti or cut a cake or take the sonogram out of an envelope and then turn it around to show with a hairbow for a girl or a bowtie for a boy. Not everything has to be explosions.
Except in America, which seems to have a fetish (in either sense of the word) for explosions
 
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