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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In the last years of the American Empire, the culture became so obsessed with death and violence that it was common to have rituals before a baby was born where they would have people involuntarily killed by fire or explosions.
A gender reveal without at least 10 acres of fire was considered a dull affair.
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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It's almost as if explosives aren't toys and shouldn't be treated like they are
But whatever, FREEDOM WOOOOOOO
Celebrate the birth of your country by burning down a sizeable portion of it
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.
do all gender reveal party inside police stations in th future good god
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
I’ll tell people that the 2019 and 2020 fires were started by gender reveals and people are always shocked
burning down seven thousand acres of old growth forest to announce that my child has a penis
it's almost like bombs are dangerous and you shouldn't celebrate things with them
