baby’s gender at a party went up in smoke Saturday [September 5, 2020] at El Rancho Dorado Park
in Yucaipa, when a pyrotechnical device they used sparked a wildfire that has burned thousands of acres."
Posted on 02/22/2021 5:48:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
A dad-to-be in upstate New York was killed when a device he was building for a gender reveal party exploded, state police said Monday.
Christopher Pekny, 28, was working on the device for his child’s gender reveal party in the Catskills town of Liberty when it blew up just before noon on Sunday, cops said.
The blast killed Pekny and injured his brother, 27-year-old Michael Pekny, who was treated for his injuries at the Garnet Medical Center in Middletown, according to police.
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Hersheys plain for girl - with almonds for boy.
“Guns don’t kill people, gender reveal parties kill people.”
You should have seen the confused look on hubby’s face the first time he ever heard the phrase “gender reveal party”!
Sadly it was only about a year ago, when some other unfortunate was killed by one of these festive IEDs.
HAHA, Yes, I think I noticed that. Gotta go share on FB, I’m in the perfect group for this!
Now the kid will never know if he or she is a boy or a girl.
New York Dad-to-Be Killed by Exploding Gender Reveal Device
New York Post ^ | February 22, 2021 | Tamar Lapin
So true. A friend of my son’s (female, ditzy as hell) was trying to outdo everyone....you’d have thought she was a Kardashian.
To ask each poor sucker to be her bride’s maid (she had about 8 of them) she decided to surprise each one. She took them out (INDIVIDUALLY) to an expensive dinner and had a big gift bag with gifts in it for each girl. So the girls had to open their gifts and guess why she was taking them for dinner.....her wedding planning had been going on for two years with pictures up the ying yang on her fb page constantly. She had showers and stag and does and all kinds of nonsense. She had the fanciest place in Toronto booked. Then covid hit. Wedding had to be post-poned. I don’t know if it’s happening this year or not. These are people who live pay to pay.....no money in either family. People turn into crazy, self-absorbed narcissists who have to outdo everyone with this internet. It’s so crazy.
Seems like a lot of BS. My wife and I were married by a Navy Chaplin in the time between two scheduled church services at the chapel. Her in her wedding gown, me in my service dress whites. Reception at Chi-Chis. Lasted for more than 40 years.
“FGS go back to food color in the cake mix”
Agreed! Actually my daughter (in her 30s) told me that a REAL gender reveal involves the parents getting the sex-test results BUT NOT LOOKING AT THEM, and then taking them to a bakery, etc. The cake is prepared and delivered under wraps. Only the cooks know until all is revealed at the party.
This sounds like more fun to me. Certainly more fun than getting blowed up. (Sorry!)
The victim procreated so, technically no.
Since someone was killed and another injured with a homemade IED doesn’t that qualify as domestic terrorism?
I never knew that gender reveal parties were a thing until this year on another FR post. Are gender reveal parties an East Coast thing?
Yes.
Well, there will be no Darwin Award for you Mister Pekny.
My kids were alienated against me very hard. The youngest will talk to me, but only barely.
There’s also the Blazing Saddles quote “You know, morons”.
If it was a Darwin reveal device, it worked too late.
Hyphens are your friend...
You're such a buzz kill.
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