Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/07/california-8600-acre-el-dora.html
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Stupid social media stunts are a pox on humanity.
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Not the first time something this fucking stupid happened
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They could bring the kid back years later: “And this scar on the landscape was where we had your gender reveal party.”
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Have to limit it to girl gender reveal parties for a while.
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Why the rush? These days it’d seem prudent to hold off on the gender reveal until maybe age 15 or so.
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Setting off fireworks anywhere in California right now deserves jail time. That whole stunt was stupid on several levels.
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Age 21 in my kid’s case.
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Agreed; it was selfish, careless and stupid as all fuck.
Gender reveal parties are bullshit anyway, but stunts that cause damage like this are down right criminal.
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Hell, it was age 44 in my case! (Not that these stupid gender reveal parties were a thing when I was born.)
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If you want to do a baby gender reveal stunt go old fashioned and do it with a few hours of screaming labor.
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“The unnamed individuals could be liable for the cost of fighting the fire…”
There goes baby’s college fund.
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Human beings never fail to disappoint.
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I mean, I already hate “gender reveal parties” with a passion, but of course someone into that shit would also be spectacularly dumb enough to set off an incendiary device in a dry field during a heat wave in the middle of a fucking drought.
Yeah, besides the Arizona wildfire, in Australia there were apparently a series of car fires that were the result of gender reveal burnouts (with colored-smoke producing tires), one resulted in a plane crash, not to mention at least one death from explosions. Dumb people doing dumb, dangerous things unsurprisingly frequently lead to awful outcomes.
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Yeah, sounds like my neighbors.
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I see the “passing out cigars to celebrate the birth of a biological boy” connection, but I think new parents should give out something else to commemorate a girl. Free tacos, perhaps.
Oh wait, is it creepy to put that much thought into baby genitals?
Yes. Yes it is.
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In old cartoons, etc it was a cigar with a blue wrapper for boys and pink ones for girls, but your point is highly valid - the conceit of putting that much focus on something as trivial as genitalia is fucking weird.
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Our son was 12 and we were the first he told. I’m still so honored by that.
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