Michigan man killed after cannon used at baby shower explodes

[RandySF]

aines Township, Michigan – A 26-year-old Michigan man was killed after an explosion that occurred during a baby shower, according to Gaines Township authorities.

A small cannon device that was fired in the backyard of a home by the homeowner blew up, spraying metal shrapnel that struck an unidentified Hartland man who was standing nearby. The man was taken in serious condition to Hurley Medical Center in Flint, where he later died.

Three parked cars and the garage where the baby shower was being held were also struck by shrapnel.

Telephone calls Sunday to Gaines Township authorities for additional information weren’t immediately returned.

In recent years, some gender-reveal events – where devices eject confetti, balloons or other colored objects to announce a soon-to-be-born child’s sex – have taken a dangerous turn.

In September, a couple’s plan to reveal their baby’s gender with blue or pink smoke sparked a wildfire that burned thousands of acres in Southern California. And in 2019, a homemade explosive used to reveal a baby’s gender killed 56-year-old Pamela Kreimeyer in Knoxville, Iowa. The device was meant to spray powder but instead blew up like a pipe bomb.






https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/michigan/2021/02/07/baby-dies-shower-cannon-explodes/115448872/

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

1. I guess just putting out blue or pink balloons is too wimpy for the maga crowd.

[cwydro]

7. How in the world do you know their politics?

[MineralMan]

10. Stupid people. MAGA. Simple.

This entire gender reveal nonsense has gone way past its usefulness.

Buy some pink or blue cards or balloons. Why would a couple care what sex their baby is, in the first place? And why would anyone else care?

It's a totally ridiculous event, really.

When I was in the child-bearing and fathering age, everyone said, "I don't care if it's a boy or girl, as long as it's healthy."

Why does anyone care? Why would it matter? It's a baby. It's a new life. It was the parent's goal. Why would it matter?

Said by someone who deliberately did not reproduce, despite being married twice and fully disclosing my intention not to make any extra babies. I don't mind if others make babies, but why does the sex or gender of the baby matter? It's a genetic crapshoot. If they want one sex, will they be disappointed if they get the other?

For Jebus' sake!

[Dream Girl]

18. Get off my lawn!

JK...it is kind of silly, but that’s wat folks are doing now.

[MineralMan]

20. Someone died. For what?

Stupid nonsense!

[cwydro]

33. Well, I agree with you on the whole gender reveal thing, but It'd be stretching it a bit to gauge

someone’s politics from stupid actions.

I don’t think we wanna go there.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

38. Once more, "I guess".

relax, it's just an opinion.

[cwydro]

39. ...

[PatSeg]

2. How on earth has our species survived this long?

And does every occasion have to be turned into some YouTube performance, trying to outdo your friends and acquaintances? I've been to some rather silly showers, but never any that could be deemed dangerous.

[Yeehah]

13. Unknown

I suspect someone put stupid pills in the US water supply.

[superpatriotman]

35. Ironically

There’s plenty of pharmaceuticals in our water supply

[Ohiogal]

17. My sentiments exactly.

Cannons for a baby shower. I just don’t understand people any more.

[PatSeg]

24. Seriously

Weddings have gotten really weird too, like it is more about putting on a great show than about getting married.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Again?!?!?

This has to at least be the tenth one. Geez, there were 5 just in 2019. And a grandma got killed last year. And that's what I remember.
Playing with explosives is not for amateurs.

[pansypoo53219]

4. can we just do cakes again?

[lpbk2713]

5. Doesn't eveyone take a cannon to a baby shower?

OMFG

[Wicked Blue]

27. I take my cannon everywhere

It's part of my duties with the Antifa Navy

[dchill]

6. I'm 69, and I've been on the periphery of many baby showers.

Zero. Explosions. Zero. Cannons.

Lots of cake.

[Dagstead Bumwood]

8. I miss the good old days when

people just utilized an alligator for the gender reveal.

[MineralMan]

12. Disembowel a chicken! Let its guts reveal the sex of the baby!

For Jebus' sake...

[lindysalsagal]

9. Balloons? Didn't we get by with balloons?

What is wrong with these people? Everything has to be a made-for-tv event? Why?

[Withywindle]

11. I could've happily lived a long time without seeing the phrase "cannon used at baby shower"

Not every event requires exploding things!

[Rick Rolle]

14. Further proof that Florida Man actually exists pretty much everywhere.

Stupid is as stupid does.

[Blue_true]

28. That is Mana Floridus to you. If you are going to put my species down, at least get

our name right.

[Rick Rolle]

40. I stand corrected.

[Blue_true]

42. We are sensitive down here, overly so.

[NNadir]

15. In my day, when you got your ultrasound results, you mentioned it, if someone asked, on the phone.

I really, really, really don't get this fad.

It sucks.

[Goodheart]

16. If I were invited to a "gender reveal" I'd RSVP with a "who gives a shit"

[MineralMan]

21. +1000

[USALiberal]

29. I doubt they would invite you! Nt

[Goodheart]

36. So true.

[Dream Girl]

19. So much shit gets done just for the benefit of social media. These things are recorded and posted

On social media.

[Zorro]

22. So is it going to be a boy or a girl?

[BootinUp]

23. Lol

[Aristus]

25. I think this is going to kill the time-honored "cannon at a baby shower" tradition...

[jmowreader]

26. I have known quite a few combat arms officers in my time...

...and I can't think of any of them who had artillery at their baby showers.

[Meowmee]

30. Tragic that someone died

And so have others due to the depraved indifference for the welfare of others and themselves. Wtf is wrong with people, there are so many idiots here, it has become mass insanity. That is what we call it.

[JI7]

31. This is about showing off on social media. It's about getting as many

views, likes and other shit including from complete strangers.

[MissMillie]

32. I don't know about you folks, but when I host a BBQ out in the yard

I avoid explosives.

Heck, I turn on the outside spigot when I fire up the grill.

[LiberalFighter]

34. I've been thinking these gender reveals are just plain stupid.

It is nothing but just for show.

[LeftInTX]

37. Waiting for the Daily Mail to do a story...

This story needs the Daily Mail

I know it's a right-wing rag, but they have good pictures...

I wanna see the cannon

[Demovictory9]

41. more

The cannon the homeowner fired was similar to a Signal Cannon, more commonly used as a novelty item. Police said the homeowner bought the cannon at an auction prior to the event and had fired the cannon several times before.

"The cannon is designed to create a big flash, a loud noise and create smoke," Michigan State Police said in a news release. "The cannon did not contain any projectiles, but it is suspected that the gun powder loaded into the device caused the cannon to fracture, resulting in shrapnel being spread in the area."