Californian authorities say a smoke-generating pyrotechnic device that was supposed to emit a colour corresponding to the sex of an unborn baby ignited dry grass nearby.

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  • AlephNull [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    In 2017, off-duty Border Patrol agent Dennis Dickey shot a target filled with an explosive blue powder, sparking a massive wildfire in Arizona.

    The fire burned 190 square kilometres and took about a week for firefighters to contain.

    Dickey was charged with a misdemeanor, sentenced to five years' probation and ordered to pay nearly $11 million in restitution.

    Last year, a homemade explosive used to reveal a baby's gender killed 56-year-old Pamela Kreimeyer in Knoxville, Iowa.

    The device was meant to spray powder but instead blew up like a pipe bomb.

    Ms Kreimeyer, who was standing 13 metres away, died instantly when debris struck her head.

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    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      It's almost as if explosives aren't toys and shouldn't be treated like they are

      But whatever, FREEDOM WOOOOOOO

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        3 years ago

        even if it was it's not like she needed to die for it. If I was restoring a local environment, something way more real than gender, and set off an explosive which killed a woman, the woman didn't die on the alter of environmentalism. I was just incredibly stupid and acted unsafely resulting in her death.

    • sam5673 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      you set off a pipe bomb from not that far away you don't expect anything bad'll happen. It's a terrible shame they did everything right