
"Who cares what gender the baby is? I did at the time because we didn't live in 2019 and didn't know what we know now - that assigning focus on gender at birth leaves out so much of their potential and talents that have nothing to do with what's between their legs," Jenna Karvunidis wrote in a Facebook post. blast was part of a gender-reveal party at a. The woman who "invented" gender reveals said she had mixed feelings about the trend in 2019. An explosion that rattled southern New Hampshire on Tuesday night had residents checking for everything from car crashes to earthquakes. A firefighter died in September after battling a fire started by a gender reveal device in California.Ī gender reveal in Florida that used what media reports described as a weapon and Tannerite sparked a 10-acre brush fire that caused $8 million in damage in April 2020. Authorities are still investigating the New Hampshire explosion. Trendy gender reveals continue to make headlines - and not always for good reasons.Ī 28-year-old New York man died in February when a device used in a gender reveal exploded. A man has been charged for detonating 80 pounds of explosives at a New Hampshire gender reveal party that triggered an explosion, police say The charges were filed after a grand jury heard 34. 22, 2021 A man who was expecting his first child was killed on Sunday and his brother was injured when a device they were preparing for a gender-reveal party exploded in a garage in the. In 2019, a 56-year-old woman was killed instantly when shrapnel from a homemade explosive hit her head at a gender reveal party.

Officials say the explosion caused a piece of debris to go flying, and it struck and killed a 56-year-old woman who was attending the party.Īnd who can forget last year’s massive El Dorado wildfire in California? It was sparked by a gender reveal device and ended up spreading over two counties, consuming more than 21,000 acres, and killing a firefighter.Police said no one was injured in the explosion and confirmed the family is having a boy. The individual who purchased and detonated the Tannerite is cooperating with the investigation and the police “will make a determination on what charges will be forthcoming.” But the long-term effects of gender reveal parties. The parties may seem like harmless fun, apart from the occasional forest fire and explosion. Christopher Pekny, 28, was assembling the device in the. Gender reveal parties reinforce harmful binaries. In 2019, an Iowa couple held a gender reveal that also featured an explosive device. A father-to-be from New York state has died after a device he was building for his childs gender-reveal party exploded, according to police. The partygoers detonated around 80 pounds of explosives. He later died at a local hospital from his injuries. (CNN) Another gender reveal party turned dangerous, this time in New Hampshire, with an explosion that shook nearby homes. He was struck by shrapnel that flew 10 to 15 feet away from the canon after it malfunctioned. In September last year, a firework at a gender reveal party caused a week-long wildfire in southern California that destroyed woodland and caused people to flee their homes. Just a few weeks ago, a Michigan man was killed at a gender reveal party that featured a canon. (CNN) Another gender reveal party turned dangerous, this time in New Hampshire, with an explosion that shook nearby homes. This is far from the first time, even recently, that a gender reveal party gone wrong has resulting in a death. A woman in Iowa died during a gender reveal announcement on Saturday after flying debris from an explosion from what amounted to a homemade pipe bomb struck her, the authorities. Police say gender reveal party caused explosion 00:55. The gender reveal incident echoes a similar gender reveal mishap in Arizona that sparked the Sawmill Fire, which damaged more than 45,000 acres and caused 8 million in damage in April.

He was just this big kid, ready to be a man. He added, “He was finally ready to settle down and he was so happy to be a dad. “But we all know that’s not the reality here.” “It has been two nights in a row of not being able to sleep, waiting, hoping to hear that this is all some crazy misunderstanding,” Peter Pekny, the dad’s oldest brother, told reporters. They have said that there are currently no charges being filed related to the explosion. After responding to reports of a loud explosion, they responded to Torromeo quarry where they found people who acknowledged holding a gender reveal party. Police have not released any details about what kind of device Pekny was building.
