Father-to-be Dies After Homemade Gender Reveal Device Explodes
Yet another Gender Reveal has ended in tragedy. Last Sunday, New York man Christopher Pekny, 28, died after an explosive device he was crafting to announce the sex of his baby exploded while he was working on it. His brother Michael, 27, was also injured.
Buzzfeed reported that the explosion went off at 11:55 AM Sunday morning. While police wouldn't specify what sort of device Pekny was working on, they have filed no charges.
Gender reveal stunts have become highly frowned upon, as the once-harmless ceremony around revealing the gender of a fetus has grown into a social media sensation. Some couples have begun using pyrotechnics and other special effects in the hopes of going viral, sometimes with fatal consequences. Two weeks ago, a man in Michigan was killed by a gender reveal cannon. Last September, a pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal party caused to a wildfire that devastated California. In 2019, a 56-year-old grandma was killed by a gender reveal pipe bomb.
The astonishingly high body count of gender-reveals has become a hot topic on Twitter.
If only science could discover a non-dangerous way to reveal your baby's genitalia to friends and family.
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Timey16
Congratulations to the reveal!
It's a half-orphan and single-mom!
AtlasJan
I'm laughing.
He's fallen on his own sword.
Hootanic
You'd think there'd be some way to do this without explosives… I mean, it is the 21st century. There's got to be a way. Somehow.
Jase1505
Not getting any sympathy from me, jackass.
8Ouroboros8
Gender reveal cannon?! Gender reveal pipe bomb?! What's next, "local government seat shelled by gender reveal tank, 12 presumed dead"?! Holy fuck…
Timey16
Gender reveal core meltdown.
ZiggyZig
So, is it a boy or a girl?
Squibblyskadew
The man LITERALLY brought it upon himself to do something that's proven to be dangerous and increasingly frowned upon by society. I swear, at this rate the US is going to soon eventually have some nationwide legislation specifically tailored to cater against morons doing this shit.
Jerach
Maybe, just maybe, people should stop trying to create homemade explosives/pyrotechnics for celebrations of any kind.
Jarl Ballin'
Okay, I know this is tragic, but at the same time, this is one of those situations where I go "Am I supposed to be sad?"
ChildishN
Natural selection on the clock.
HardcoreHunter
He already passed his genes on though.
Matarael, Angel of Rain
Well shit.