Gender reveal party blows up

An American family's gender reveal celebrations have ended in tragedy after an accidental "pipe bomb" exploded and killed a 56-year-old woman that was 45 feet away.

Iowa woman, in Rural Knoxville,   Pamela Kreimeyer died instantly after an explosion during the gender reveal announcement caused a piece of metal debris to hit her, De Moines Register reported.

Police arrived at the Knoxville home on Sunday (NZ time) to find her dead.

The woman's son used gunpowder and colorants in an iron tube mounted on a metal plate, they had created a pipe bomb. As soon as the device was lit, it exploded, shooting pieces of shrapnel in all directions.

In a statement send to De Moines Register, police said the Kreimeyer family had planned to make a fun announcement of the child's gender for social media, but instead inadvertently created a pipe bomb.

Sheriff Jason Sandholdt's office said members of the family had been experimenting with different types of explosive material.

Police said gunpowder and some coloured powder had been put inside a homemade stand which had a metal base. The idea was for that, once lit, the coloured power would blast out the top of the stand.

But instead the explosion sent shrapnel flying and Pamela Kreimeyer died after being struck in the head, De Moines Register reported.

Bad Idea 

Editor Note

It is true you can't fix stupid.

How can you make an "accidential" pipe bomb?

It would seem this was an accident but that is the wrong word to describe what happened.

The family had been experimenting with different types of explosive material.

In other words what they made was NO accident.

They were making home made explosives and experimenting making bomb material.

When you use gun powder mixed with whatever its going to explode.

They knew what they were making would explode.

Grandmaw in the corner 45 feet away was not safe.


I think a "gender reveal" party is stupid anyway.

Thank makes this even more stupid.