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A gender-reveal celebration at a concrete plant in rural New Hampshire involved someone detonating 80 pounds of Tannerite, an over-the-counter explosive, police said.
Updated on April 22, 2021 at 11:49 am
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Neighborhoods in several different southern New Hampshire towns were rocked by a mysterious explosion Tuesday night.
Kingston police say the blast was caused by a family using explosives to reveal the gender of their baby.
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Chief Donald Briggs said the blast happened at Torromeo Industries on Dorre Road around 7 p.m.
Kingston residents say it was like nothing they had ever heard before.
“It was earth-shaking,” said a neighbor on Dorre Road.
Sara Taglieri and her husband, Matt, live in a home that abuts the Torromeo quarry.
The trend of explosive gender reveal parties has been widely mocked online (Arizona Daily Star/youtube and twitter)
A gender reveal party triggered earthquake reports across state lines after a family used industrial quantities of explosives to announce their child’s genitals to the world.
The earth-shattering explosion in a New Hampshire quarry rocked several nearby towns and could be heard as far as Massachusetts, police said.
After receiving multiple calls officers rushed to the quarry where they found a group of people who acknowledged holding a gender reveal party with explosives.
No injuries were reported, but the person who bought and detonated the explosives has turned himself in to police. Officers watched a video of the reveal and can confirm that the child was a boy, if anyone cares.