Thursday, February 25, 2021

Not So Smart Bomb

 A New York man died and his brother was injured on Sunday when a small explosive device meant to be used as part of a gender reveal party malfunctioned and exploded. [More]

How can "some kind of pipe [with] explosive material" malfunction if it performed exactly as misdesigned? 

And I thought revealing gender was noninclusively binary and premature until Rachel Levine says it's time to operate...

[Via bondmen]

1 comment:

Henry said...

To be fair, the description could just as easily apply to a firework mortar or confetti-cannon type device.
Better to buy one than build one, but I bet in New York all the common-sense ways to do that are long since closed off.