Gender Reveal Gone Wrong Causes Explosion, Neighbors Think Its An Earthquake

Gender Reveal parties are a recent way of revealing the baby's sex to its closest friends and family. It became popular in the United States around the late 2000s, thanks to advancing technologies.

While it used to just be as simple as cutting a cake with a pink or blue inside, expecting parents are starting to go above and beyond with their reveals. How far is too far?

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The craze can be linked back to Jenna Karvunidis. In 2008, she threw a party where she announced her baby's sex by cutting into pink icing. She wrote about it on her blog and it went viral.

Since then, googling "gender reveals" shows that it's lead to bush fires, plane crashes, and even deaths...

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This Time, It Got The Police Involved

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At around 7 p.m., the people who live near Torromeo quarry thought they heard a loud explosion.

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The sounds were followed by tremors so they wondered if they were about to experience an earthquake. They called 9-1-1.

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It Was Caused By A Detonation

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The police came rushing but what they found was a group of people celebrating a gender reveal.

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It turns out that they had detonated a large stock of Tannerite as part of a gender-reveal party, which caused the explosion.

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It Was A Big Explosion

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The New Hampshire gender reveal party didn't just cause a small explosion. They had 80 pounds worth of explosives.

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That explains why it felt like an earthquake once it was detonated.

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They Thought They Were Being Safe

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According to news outlets, the family said they thought a quarry was the safest place to have their exposition.

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Clearly they were wrong and missed some calculations. We don't understand why a cake couldn't have sufficed. At least they could've eaten it too.

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The People Living Around Were Not Happy

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In interviews with news outlets, one person living on the same street as the quarry said that the explosion was "earth-shattering."

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Others living nearby said that it even knocked pictures off their walls and cracked foundations in their home. One person commented, "I don't know how that's right."

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It Pushes The Line On What's "Legal"

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Technically, the explosives were purchased legally. Plus, the family didn't have bad intentions when they detonated them.

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However, what they did put them and others in danger. Plus, it caused quite a ruckus. The authorities weren't impressed, to say the least.

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Was It Worth The Police Investigation?

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The identity of the family was kept confidential. All we know is that the man who purchased the explosives turned himself in for police investigation.

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In the end, simple pink balloons don't seem so bad, do they?

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Maybe It's Time To Celebrate The Baby, Not The Gender

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Even though these parties are meant to reveal the baby's gender so the parents can celebrate it and prepare, a lot can change.

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Getting rid of these gender reveals might not only be safer for everyone but might also start to break some of the gender stereotypes that come with it, such as pink being for girls and blue for boys.