Fatal baby shower: made a device to know the sex of the baby and died when he exploded | the Chronicle

A 28-year-old man died on Sunday, after detonate an artifact that reveals your child’s gender, when the device was handcrafted at his home in the city of Liberty, New York, United States.

It is Christopher Pekny, who worked on the device, with his 27-year-old brother, Michael pekny, when the device exploded. Despite Michael had only a few injuries and was transferred to Garnet Health Medical Center, Christophe he died of the shrapnel which struck him.

Police rushed to the scene and the victim is believed to have died “a cardiac event involving an unknown explosion”.

Also, the agent Steven nevel made sure that the device “it was not constructed or made for malicious purposes”but to reveal “highligths” the sex of your baby.

Fatal accidents at baby showers

The first accident linked to this festival of “revelation of the baby’s sex” occurred in 2018 in Arizona, when another similar device generated a “Sawmill fire”, which burned 18 thousand hectares. In October In 2019, debris from a homemade explosive used for a sex reveal struck a woman in Iowa and killed her.

In April 2020, a genre reveal in Florida that used “a weapon” and an explosive, provokedc a 4 hectare fire that caused 8 million dollars in damage. In September of last year, a A smoke device used in a genre reveal in El Dorado Ranch Park in California started a wildfire that burned for 23 days on 8,900 acres, resulting in the death of a firefighter.

Finally, a few weeks ago in MichiganA shrapnel from a small party cannon fired at a baby shower struck and killed a 26-year-old man.

Source:
Times Herald-Record