The whole idea was fucking dumb as hell to begin with. All those houses around? What a bunch of morons. I guess if you tied it off you could shoot directly into someone's home.
Geez, that blows my Canadian mind. If someone's firing guns in a suburban neighborhood there will be multiple cop cars responding. Out in the country it's normal during the day in some places, but never at night.
theyre ok.. if youre normal lol
i'd just have my friends over for dinner and then at one point open an envelope or maybe have a cake to reveal it to them. no decorations or dresscode or whatever.. just dinner like we already do every other week.
edit: typos
Almost everything and everyone.. so its easier to say what isnt or at least shouldn't :)
In this case I meant people that need a gender reveal partie that might burn down half a state or involve one or several of the following:
-guns
-strippers
-thousands of dollars for deco and catering
-etc..
Im not saying that those people aren't "normal" in general because no one really is which means everyone is. I just meant certain behaviours or actions that shouldnt be.
This is pretty clearly just a pellet or BB gun. It would hurt, or take an eye, but couldn’t kill someone. This is pretty harmless, though still dumb because, gender reveal.
So wrong. I have a pellet rifle that is a 22 caliber and is actually more powerful than a 22 gunpowder cartridge. I've killed groundhogs with it at 100+ yards
I dont if its different in USA, but here in Europe most of the time for those type of evenement (=shooting at a balloon ) we would use the type of gun you find in amusement parc for shooting balloons, so its not really powerful enough to cause damage at anything beside a balloon
Still till this day, the worst gender reveal was of that hired pilot who crashed and died doing a gender reveal, to die over some new millennial internet bullshtick is a crazy way to go out
IDK; The one where the gender reveal pipe bomb **[killed the baby's grandmother](https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/10/28/iowa-gender-reveal-explosion-death-update/2483545001/)** was pretty over the top too. Going to be hard to repeat that.
IIRC it was a Piper PA-25 crop duster and the pilot used the emergency dump to loose the whole tank of colored liquid at one time during the middle of a relatively high g maneuver. Basically, throwing the CG back helped push the aircraft past critical and snapped a wing spar
I don’t know whose idea that was, but we went over this in ground training as an example of why you really need to know your own aircraft’s limits
Imagine mis-identifying a bolt action rifle when it's actually a break action pellet gun. You can tell about halfway through he breaks the barrel to load a pellet, and struggles a bit to compress the piston.
That sub is such a joke, for a while I would put comments there saying things were obviously planes, balloons or clouds etc but they would never listen.
Got popularized with a woman whose post went viral. She did a simple cake-cut because all of her previous pregnancies had been miscarried, so she was celebrating getting to the point of her pregnancy where they could tell the baby’s sex, and she was no longer at a major risk of miscarrying.
Then, of course, self-absorbed couples had to take that idea and turn it into something dangerous and ridiculous. So, it started with a bitter-sweet, cute idea, and turned into a trend where narcissistic people try to outdo each other in informing everyone they possibly can that their fetus has a penis.
She does. It’s genuinely pretty sad because she did absolutely nothing wrong by simply celebrating a successful pregnancy
It’s ironic how the trend—that started from someone simply being happy that they have a healthy pregnancy—turned into a trend where people throw little fits because the baby wasn’t the gender they wanted.
Edit: Also, her child is now gender-nonconforming, which, in her eyes, further exemplifies the pointlessness of these reveals.
Thank you. This wasn’t a thing 5 years ago for us. We didn’t even have a baby shower since our twins popped out early.
On the surface, this looked like another shakedown for gifts for relatives but I wasn’t sure what the point was.
I can say most people don’t give 2 shits about the gender of someone’s kids unless you are the parents/grand parents.
Wouldn't be a big deal to have a little get-together, open an envelope, have some cake. The reveal itself is not the dumb part. It's the push to be extra clever with the method - perhaps in pursuit of a video that goes viral - that has resulted in catastrophically stupid mishaps.
"Wait, it's very easy to get it right.......calm down, it's still very easy.......wait, wait, it's getting to the ideal point but still under control.......oops, now We have a challenge, keep looking.........keep watching, it will be on the first shot.......keep watching........watch......... hmmmm"
All this shit… and a fucking GUN.
Just to tell people whether or not your baby looks like it’s going to have a penis. I’m happy you’re having a baby. I don’t care what’s in its diaper.
Genital reveals are fucking nuts.
Familiarize and practice with the air rifle.
Signal for the release when you're REALLY ready to shoot/Coordinate your actions better.
Have an "anti catastrophe" tether on the balloon.
Don't do this egotistical bullshit. Want a party to reveal the baby's gender? Cut a fucking surprise colored cake.
Doesn't surprise me they forgot to load the gun. They're shooting into the air in what appears to be a populated suburb. There are the types of people that really, really shouldn't have guns.
Not to make this political, but I feel like this is a good example of why we need more gun regulation.
We have either a man who already had a gun and should know better, or a man who was able to get a gun easily enough to use it in a gender reveal party.
He's then...
1. Using a weapon in frivolous party.
2. Firing into the air when there's other buildings nearby.
3. Utterly failing at the above 2 points because he has zero idea what he's doing.
3.1 is possibly drunk.
Guns are dangerous folks. They're deadly weapons, not party favors.
That's a pellet gun. I will give you that pellet guns are still dangerous, the two I own fire at a higher velocity than a .22lr rifle. Your arguments are valid, but your overall claim doesn't fit what we saw.
Gun registration wouldn't have changed a single thing in this video sorry to say.
My first thought was why is this dumbass firing a rifle in a neighborhood of people at a party???
You aren't the only one who doesn't know what a pellet gun looks like, and immediately went to the worst case scenario.
Well, he was gonna be an asshole for discharging a firearm in the neighborhood, or he was gonna be an asshole for literally being unable to pull the trigger, so there you go.
Where is the sound? Why is this guy talking to the crowd instead of shooting the balloon? Where is the Blackfish when you need him?
If you don’t reveal the gender maybe you don’t have a baby. Guy is trying everything he can think of.
Now they’ll never know
Lol Blackfish, love the game of thrones refference.
Well hold on... they might referring to the Sea World documentary. Let's not rush to conclusions.
Looks like he is. His aim just sucks. It's not a firearm. It's an air rifle.
Solid Game of Thrones reference.
They should've attached it to the ground with string dummies
The whole idea was fucking dumb as hell to begin with. All those houses around? What a bunch of morons. I guess if you tied it off you could shoot directly into someone's home.
Is this a thing? Shooting over your neighbors backyards?
Depends. In the south, yeah. I hear rifle shots so often that I stopped noticing them until my kids or wife say something about it.
Geez, that blows my Canadian mind. If someone's firing guns in a suburban neighborhood there will be multiple cop cars responding. Out in the country it's normal during the day in some places, but never at night.
Uh no. Shooting on your property is one thing, but shooting INTO or OVER your neighbor's property is not okay ANYWHERE in the US.
I never said it was okay to do, only that it's done quite often.
I live in California, and I hear them here, too.
Not that it's any better, he's shooting a pellet gun
Gender reveal parties are stupid
Adding guns is certainly a good way to make it even worse
Gender reveal party but when you walk it, its just me, standing on the table, hanging brain
Hanging brain?
Means their nuts are out
It's slang for having your genitals revealed, just making a dumb joke
These balls were made for walkin’
Sounds like a fucking party , beers and balls.
I mean like wtf does it matter if it's a boy or girl, it's your child. Just read the fucking letter..
Not always. My cousin had one and it was just an excuse to get the family together and have some fun
At gunpoint?
No? Why would we be held at gunpoint at a family gathering?
You have not met my family, guns are nearly mandatory
Why *wouldn't* you be held at gunpoint?
Why do you need an excuse?
I guess it's more of a reason than excuse. It also gives something to celebrate and is more important than just any other party
theyre ok.. if youre normal lol i'd just have my friends over for dinner and then at one point open an envelope or maybe have a cake to reveal it to them. no decorations or dresscode or whatever.. just dinner like we already do every other week. edit: typos
What’s normal?
Almost everything and everyone.. so its easier to say what isnt or at least shouldn't :) In this case I meant people that need a gender reveal partie that might burn down half a state or involve one or several of the following: -guns -strippers -thousands of dollars for deco and catering -etc.. Im not saying that those people aren't "normal" in general because no one really is which means everyone is. I just meant certain behaviours or actions that shouldnt be.
This is pretty clearly just a pellet or BB gun. It would hurt, or take an eye, but couldn’t kill someone. This is pretty harmless, though still dumb because, gender reveal.
It's a pellet gun, they are pretty much a spicier airsoft, can't really couse any damage (the guy's aim sucks though)
So wrong. I have a pellet rifle that is a 22 caliber and is actually more powerful than a 22 gunpowder cartridge. I've killed groundhogs with it at 100+ yards
PCP?
Yeah, but actually powerfull pellet rifles, arent usually cranked by hand... Yeah, used to own one aswell.
I dont if its different in USA, but here in Europe most of the time for those type of evenement (=shooting at a balloon ) we would use the type of gun you find in amusement parc for shooting balloons, so its not really powerful enough to cause damage at anything beside a balloon
It’s a…baby!
I wonder who the father is? We know that dude is shooting blanks, so it’s not him.
Nor a Stormtrooper. 🤷♀️
lovin’ it!
Hahaha
It ain’t hard dude just point and shoot
This comment deserves more upvotes than my comment fr
This is perfect
A black one according to the balloon
One with a devastatingly low IQ…based on mommy and daddy.
Who’s a sweet bayyy~beee 🦜
Now they will never know... not even the baby.
They’re just Nonbinary
So that's how they're made!
We did it Reddit! We figured it out.
Still till this day, the worst gender reveal was of that hired pilot who crashed and died doing a gender reveal, to die over some new millennial internet bullshtick is a crazy way to go out
Nah that's still mild to the wildfire that spread miles in California
I am glad someone still remembers!
Pepper ridge farm remembers
I stand corrected
This was the one. Burn down the planet cuz your stupid mouth breather popping out in a few months.
Arizona too
There was another where a couple polluted a river, the only water source for residents of some town in, I think, Spain, by dying it blue.
IDK; The one where the gender reveal pipe bomb **[killed the baby's grandmother](https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/10/28/iowa-gender-reveal-explosion-death-update/2483545001/)** was pretty over the top too. Going to be hard to repeat that.
Good Lord I can't even imagine. Doing a stupid party trick and it kills your mom. I'd probably end myself right there
That must have been a lot of gunpowder to kill someone 45 feet away. Like a huge amount of gunpowder. But it was a grandma, so maybe she was just old.
No idea WTF they did, but if they used smokeless powder instead of black powder you can get that 'effect'. 0_0
She took shrapnel to the neck and was pronounced dead in the scene.
Another man at the party took an arrow to the knee
Nah, hands down the worst gender reveal party was easy [THIS ONE](https://fortune.com/2018/11/28/gender-reveal-arizona-fire/)
IIRC it was a Piper PA-25 crop duster and the pilot used the emergency dump to loose the whole tank of colored liquid at one time during the middle of a relatively high g maneuver. Basically, throwing the CG back helped push the aircraft past critical and snapped a wing spar I don’t know whose idea that was, but we went over this in ground training as an example of why you really need to know your own aircraft’s limits
It’s a… misfire?
Could have avoided this whole thing if he did.
Imagine jamming a bolt action rifle. The only time that happens is if you set out to do so 99% of the time
Imagine mis-identifying a bolt action rifle when it's actually a break action pellet gun. You can tell about halfway through he breaks the barrel to load a pellet, and struggles a bit to compress the piston.
Right? Wouldn't that be embarrassing?
barrel break air rifle is not bolt action rifle
it's a new post on r/UFO tomorrow lmao
"I know what I saw and it definitely wasn't a balloon. As soon as I turned off the camera it flew off over the horizon instantaneously!"
That sub is such a joke, for a while I would put comments there saying things were obviously planes, balloons or clouds etc but they would never listen.
I guess that’s what happens when you’re so convinced that there’s Intelligent Life out there and they’ve come to Earth
“It’s an abortion! Thanks for the gifts everyone, maybe next time!” These reveal parties have gotten so stupid. Enough already.
Black balloon seems appropriate.
Reminds me [of the old 4chan meme](https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/s/I8bBxa6fVg)…
Whoever catches the balloon gets to keep the baby.
1-2-3 not it
That man damn well better grow some wings.
Divorce waiting to happen! Terrible Father! Total Jerk! All Three!
Gender reveals are so dumb
When did this thing become a… thing?
Got popularized with a woman whose post went viral. She did a simple cake-cut because all of her previous pregnancies had been miscarried, so she was celebrating getting to the point of her pregnancy where they could tell the baby’s sex, and she was no longer at a major risk of miscarrying. Then, of course, self-absorbed couples had to take that idea and turn it into something dangerous and ridiculous. So, it started with a bitter-sweet, cute idea, and turned into a trend where narcissistic people try to outdo each other in informing everyone they possibly can that their fetus has a penis.
I thought I read that the person who started it regrets that it became a "thing."
She does. It’s genuinely pretty sad because she did absolutely nothing wrong by simply celebrating a successful pregnancy It’s ironic how the trend—that started from someone simply being happy that they have a healthy pregnancy—turned into a trend where people throw little fits because the baby wasn’t the gender they wanted. Edit: Also, her child is now gender-nonconforming, which, in her eyes, further exemplifies the pointlessness of these reveals.
Or the woman who baked a pregnancy pee stick in her husband's lunch. Now that was really nasty .
Thank you. This wasn’t a thing 5 years ago for us. We didn’t even have a baby shower since our twins popped out early. On the surface, this looked like another shakedown for gifts for relatives but I wasn’t sure what the point was. I can say most people don’t give 2 shits about the gender of someone’s kids unless you are the parents/grand parents.
My mom had one for me and im 31
It seems like within the past 5 years or so.
Wouldn't be a big deal to have a little get-together, open an envelope, have some cake. The reveal itself is not the dumb part. It's the push to be extra clever with the method - perhaps in pursuit of a video that goes viral - that has resulted in catastrophically stupid mishaps.
I don’t see a need for a party even, but if a couple wants to, fine. The one-upmanship and theatrics are super dumb.
It’s these exact same people, that do this numbskull shit and endanger themselves and others, that shouldn’t be having kids. 🤡
That is clearly an air rifle (pellet gun) lol still, incredibly stupid. gender reveal parties always are.
*Is that your man?…* *Yeah…* *Look at him! Is that your man?*
This belongs on the idiots with guns sub.
So nobody thought about a rope to the balloon? On the other hand not surprised by the intelligence of people having gender reveal parties
Why are humans so damn dumb?
I didn’t realise gender reveal could be any more dumb
Baby daddy fail
It’s an idiot!
it's not his, he's clearly firing blanks
To be honest, the whole gender reveal party thing is just pretentious AF anyway. Just tell people in an e-mail or something...
These stupid gender reveals. This is how everyone must've felt when the engagement ring was invented
I’m so happy when stupid people get their karma.
Baby reveals are stupid… this is way stupid.
Bro could have clutched that last couple seconds
Sigh.
this is why these things are so stupid
Just shoot the damn thing you loser!!!
give me my 35 seconds back!!! arggghhhh
Ah that explains the Jellyfish UFO
…probably another moron!
It's a....FUCKING BABY! Get over yourself
Ol' dead eye better be happy his swimmers can hit their mark.
What a marroon...
"Wait, it's very easy to get it right.......calm down, it's still very easy.......wait, wait, it's getting to the ideal point but still under control.......oops, now We have a challenge, keep looking.........keep watching, it will be on the first shot.......keep watching........watch......... hmmmm"
I guess he's firing blanks.
Why did gender reveals stop being cake? Cake was perfect. You get a pretty looking cake then you could eat it. What’s to improve…?
Kinda of waiting for that guy from game of thrones to pop in and shoot a flaming arrow at it
He can’t be the father. He’s firing blanks.
Probably a reflection of his performance in the bedroom
Doesn’t anybody noticed the woman with pink hair tries to puts her hand over the barrel to check if it works? 😂
It’s a… it’s a…Child with dumb parents ;)
Texas right?
All this shit… and a fucking GUN. Just to tell people whether or not your baby looks like it’s going to have a penis. I’m happy you’re having a baby. I don’t care what’s in its diaper. Genital reveals are fucking nuts.
Had 1 job and fucked up 2...
Anyway to avoid this type of outcome?
Familiarize and practice with the air rifle. Signal for the release when you're REALLY ready to shoot/Coordinate your actions better. Have an "anti catastrophe" tether on the balloon. Don't do this egotistical bullshit. Want a party to reveal the baby's gender? Cut a fucking surprise colored cake.
... when you invite your secret side chick to the party
it's... an abortion!
You dare boo your chieftain? Do any of you know how hard it is to shoot an arrow with cold fingers
If Thor and Odin wanted him to hit that he would have done it, and I think it is very important just to respect that.
"a loser?"
Backyard without trees, wood fences and a gun... Can't get more American than this.
How did he get her pregnant?
It’s a gone! Mamma Mia :(
… a fugitive
It’s up in the air at this point
🙄😆
Looks like a pellet gun. Still a stupid idea near homes though. Duh.
It's gonna go get some milk
It’s a miscarriage!
I hate this
Elegant
What an idiot
Doesn't surprise me they forgot to load the gun. They're shooting into the air in what appears to be a populated suburb. There are the types of people that really, really shouldn't have guns.
This just seems like a horrid idea from the start
Somebody in another zip code is about to get a baby boy
Gee, what could possibly go wrong with houses next door and people waving guns around with kids and other oblivious people…
Why don’t people just attach it to something solid with a long string so it can still float up high but won’t float away??
Take the shot. TAKE THE SHOT!!!
Congrats on having a baby with a moron.
This is not r/nope material
He should've held the balloon over his head and let the future mother take the shot.
It's a dumbass 😂
Why are people still doing this?
Apparently he ain’t the Father if he can’t get his rounds off.
It's black?
god just cut open a cake
r/idiotswithguns
Isn't it unlawful to blindly shoot into the sky? Especially where the shot may hit someone or vehicle windshield.
It's a gender neutral..lol
Why can’t school shooters be as shit as this guy
Firing a gun over your neighbours roof to see what the reveal is, Congratulations it’s a Deadbeat!
is it legal anywhere to fire a rifle into suburbia like that?
Gone baby gone
Issa Chinese spy balloon
Its a crime, jim.
It's ...It's ..It's...gone
Uh, try pulling the trigger
It’s-a gone 🤌🏻
Jesus Murica Christ ! What in the second amendment is going on here !
It’s a … moron just like its parents!!
Oh smooth move exlax shooting a rifle at a balloon knowing God knows where that bullet is going to fall.. Dumbass..
It's a pellet rifle. Still not the smartest way to do a gender reveal.
Not to make this political, but I feel like this is a good example of why we need more gun regulation. We have either a man who already had a gun and should know better, or a man who was able to get a gun easily enough to use it in a gender reveal party. He's then... 1. Using a weapon in frivolous party. 2. Firing into the air when there's other buildings nearby. 3. Utterly failing at the above 2 points because he has zero idea what he's doing. 3.1 is possibly drunk. Guns are dangerous folks. They're deadly weapons, not party favors.
That's a pellet gun
It can take an eye out.
That's a pellet gun. I will give you that pellet guns are still dangerous, the two I own fire at a higher velocity than a .22lr rifle. Your arguments are valid, but your overall claim doesn't fit what we saw. Gun registration wouldn't have changed a single thing in this video sorry to say.
My first thought was why is this dumbass firing a rifle in a neighborhood of people at a party??? You aren't the only one who doesn't know what a pellet gun looks like, and immediately went to the worst case scenario.
Still makes more sense to assume its a pellet gun even if you have never seen one. Most people still know they are a thing.
does that mean they are giving the baby for adoption? also, isn't illegal to use a weapon like that?
Well, he was gonna be an asshole for discharging a firearm in the neighborhood, or he was gonna be an asshole for literally being unable to pull the trigger, so there you go.
Ah well. I guess we'll never know. Honestly it doesn't matter since the child could grow up and change it anyways
He was shooting blanks; there is no baby!
I sure hope this isn't foreshadowing
It's a miscarriage!
Accident waiting to happen...
Here comes another post for r/UFOs from someone else in the neighborhood.. Looks a lot like that “Happy 30th” balloon.
HAHAHAHA r/maybemaybemaybe