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Father-to-Be Killed by Explosion While Building Device for Gender-reveal

Night.Ninja

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A father-to-be in New York died after an explosive prop accidentally detonated just ahead of the gender-reveal party for his child.

Christopher Pekny, 28, died in the explosion and his brother Michael Pekny, 27, was injured in the Sullivan County village of Liberty, roughly 100 miles outside of New York City.

"It wasn't meant to harm anyone," said Trooper Steven Nevel. "It was just an innocent prop for a gender reveal that went horribly wrong." Nevel also noted that the device was just a prototype and wasn't going to be the final product.
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What a way to lose your life

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StreetsofBeige

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For an explosion to kill one person and injure another, it must had been a giant gas-based bomb device which would explode tons of pink or blue shit in the air.

Pretty stupid event anyway. All for clicks and show time.


Gender-reveal parties, which have roots in a 2008 parenting blog, have turned dangerous in recent years, as excited couples have opted for increasingly elaborate stunts to share whether they are having a boy or a girl. A novelty cannon killed a Michigan man at a gender-reveal party earlier this month. A soon-to-be grandmother died in Iowa after shrapnel from a homemade explosive device struck her chest in 2019. The parties have also sparked wildfires and caused a plane crash in recent years.
 
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StreetsofBeige said:
For an explosion to kill one person and injure another, it must had been a giant gas-based bomb device which would explode tons of pink or blue shit in the air.

Pretty stupid event anyway. All for clicks and show time.


Gender-reveal parties, which have roots in a 2008 parenting blog, have turned dangerous in recent years, as excited couples have opted for increasingly elaborate stunts to share whether they are having a boy or a girl. A novelty cannon killed a Michigan man at a gender-reveal party earlier this month. A soon-to-be grandmother died in Iowa after shrapnel from a homemade explosive device struck her chest in 2019. The parties have also sparked wildfires and caused a plane crash in recent years.
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You have any idea what he did wrong? Like how strong of an explosion was it to kill him and injure his brother?
when I think of something like this , I’m thinking of a glitter bomb type of thing, not something strong enough to kill.
 
StreetsofBeige

StreetsofBeige

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ThePhantomKnight said:
You have any idea what he did wrong? Like how strong of an explosion was it to kill him and injure his brother?
when I think of something like this , I’m thinking of a glitter bomb type of thing, not something strong enough to kill.
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I don't know.

But same thinking. You see these YT videos and a puffy explosion more like a big balloon bursting is what you typically see. Even if someone stood right beside it taking in the blast, they arent strong enough to kill.
 
SinDelta

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Why can't they throw a regular party and have balloons and stuff like that? Have a sign or a doll or something for the surprise.

Instead of dangerous stuff that risks serious injury and death??? What a senseless tragedy.
 
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Fbh

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Feel sorry for the family. You now have a a kid without a father and a woman having to raise it alone all for the sake of having some flashy gender reveal party.

Just buy a cake or use a piñata or something.
 
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DESTROYA

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This is why you don't fuck with dangerous shit when you have no clue what your doing, feel bad for the kid and family but how do you explain this to the kid ?


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KrakenIPA

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Goddamn tragedy. Go to your local shooting spot and throw a pink or blue duck in the mix if your so excited about the reveal. Goddamn tragedy.
 
Punished Miku

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There's no way this kid isn't going to grow up without problems. There's just no good way to frame that one. Your died blew himself up while trying to throw your first party.

But seriously, I've read about multiple forest fires, deaths, and all kinds of mayhem from these things. People need to go back to baby showers. I don't recall hearing about regular deaths from those.
 
StreetsofBeige

StreetsofBeige

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Punished Miku said:
There's no way this kid isn't going to grow up without problems. There's just no good way to frame that one. Your died blew himself up while trying to throw your first party.

But seriously, I've read about multiple forest fires, deaths, and all kinds of mayhem from these things. People need to go back to baby showers. I don't recall hearing about regular deaths from those.
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Sounds reasonable.

But got to amp up the party so you can post it on Twitter and YT for clicks. Big splash-o-rama.

Nobody is going to click on a bunch of people opening up presents and seeing the 12th baby outfit.
 
SJRB

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Gender reveal parties have to be one of the most retarded current day trends going on.

Look, nobody cares about your kid, let alone what gender it is. Nobody wants to drag their tired ass to your stupid piece of shit backyard lawn where you jank a balloon or throw a colored smoke grenade or drop a colored flashbang grenade or detonate semtex where the 6-foot crater in the ground shows blue or pink.


Also I'm glad the article mentioned the detonated object was just a prototype and not a final product - I was on the fence of ordering one myself.
 
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Blade2.0

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And shit. I'd be pissed if my friend's kid was revealed as a female but grew up to be a male. My best friend lied to my fucking face.
 
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e&e

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eddie4 said:
"A gender reveal party, I mean what are the odds 50/50, right?"

"Not in 2021, about 1 out of a 112, it could be anything, who knows!"
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Man, even a tragic accident can’t keep this shit out of threads and in the Politics section...

All I did for ours is a cake and a box with balloons. Don’t use devices that can kill you just for a reveal people!
 
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CrankyJay™

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I’m sorry. These gender reveals are the dumbest fucking thing EVER. The best gender reveal is waiting until the fucking kid comes out of the birth canal.
 
eddie4

eddie4

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e&e said:
All I did for ours is a cake and a box with balloons. Don’t use devices that can kill you just for a reveal people!
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And that's how you're supposed to do it, doesn't matter what the gender is. You don't need explosions and some big show. Just keep it simple, invite people, celebrate, etc.
 
CrankyJay™

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eddie4 said:
And that's how you're supposed to do it, doesn't matter what the gender is. You don't need explosions and some big show. Just keep it simple, invite people, celebrate, etc.
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You’re not even supposed to do it. Just fucking phone people after the kid is born like a normal goddamn person. Or a card.

I’m sorry. This shit makes me irrationally upset. Lol
 
eddie4

eddie4

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CrankyJay™ said:
You’re not even supposed to do it. Just fucking phone people after the kid is born like a normal goddamn person. Or a card.

I’m sorry. This shit makes me irrationally upset. Lol
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Well yeah, i've never had a gender reveal party, nor have I chosen to go to one. Just tell me what the kid is or what you want it to be and that's all, after all, no one cares but you.
But if you absolutely must have one, don't include fucking explosions.
 
K

K' Dash

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Why people keep doing gender reveal shit?

Me and my wife made a zoom call to let the family know it's a girl. Nobody died.

Edit: by family I mean parents and siblings.
 
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haxan7

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Sounds like the gender reveal with explosions trend was created by a dirty commie who now regrets the “dichotomy they reinforce”. But not so much the death and dismemberment part.

“I think it’s a dangerous trend, and not just physically,” Karvunidis said. “I think the more egregious danger for it really is the social harm it does. This affects many more millions of people. You might get a few people who get hurt from explosives, but you have a larger amount of people who are really hurt socially by the dichotomy it helps reinforce.”
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www.oskaloosa.com

Gender reveal originator says it's a 'dangerous trend'

After an effort to create a viral gender reveal video resulted in an explosion near Knoxville that killed a grandmother-to-be, an Internet blogger believed to be the beginning of gender
www.oskaloosa.com www.oskaloosa.com

Brainlets gonna brainlet.
 
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GymWolf

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Punished Miku said:
There's no way this kid isn't going to grow up without problems. There's just no good way to frame that one. Your died blew himself up while trying to throw your first party.

But seriously, I've read about multiple forest fires, deaths, and all kinds of mayhem from these things. People need to go back to baby showers. I don't recall hearing about regular deaths from those.
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They just have to lie to the kid, no need to tell him all the details.
 
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Kamina

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Gender reveal? And wtf was be building if it is apparently so dangerous?
 
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Boss Mog

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I feel bad for the kid who will now have to grow up without a Dad but man what a stupid and totally unnecessary death. With the major issue that forest fires have become ordinary citizens have no business using explosive or pyrotechnic devices.
 
MacReady13

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When I last had a child (2 and a half years ago) I let everyone know by calling them and telling them. I thought that was the way normal people did this shit???
 
Aesius

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CrankyJay™ said:
I’m sorry. These gender reveals are the dumbest fucking thing EVER. The best gender reveal is waiting until the fucking kid comes out of the birth canal.
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Yep. My wife and I didn't find out the gender of our son until delivery. It made the entire experience that much more intense and memorable.
 
QuantumZebra

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Cravis said:
I just don’t get this. Buy a damn cake.

It’s a tragedy that this child is going to grow up in a world without a father. I couldn’t imagine. Seriously my heart aches for that mother and child.
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Agreed.

I thought people would get over this dumb shit after they burned down half the West coast of the U.S.

Guess not.
 
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