A gender reveals party has gone disastrously wrong this week after the revelers set off a large explosion.
According to CBS News 4 Boston, the explosion in question took place between New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts at approximately 7:00PM on Tuesday evening.
Police in Kingston, a town on the Massachusetts border nearby the site of the explosion responded to reports of the explosion from concerned citizens.
The investigators traced the explosion to a nearby abandoned quarry, where they discovered a number of people gathered there who revealed that they had been throwing a gender reveal party.
It was then discovered that the partiers had detonated more than 80 pounds of Tannerite - an explosive sold over the counter at most American gun stores.
Per NBC News, the explosion was so immense that it rocked two towns on either side of the state border, leading to reports of an Earthquake, police say. But per NBC's meteorologists, no earthquakes reported around that time.
"It was earth-shaking," one local told NBC.
In an official statement, a police spokesperson stated:
"A Kingston Police Detective met with individuals that were on site, who cooperated with the detective and informed him that they were having a gender reveal party.
"During the investigation, the detective was informed that the location, a quarry, was chosen as they felt it was a safe location to detonate the Tannerite."
Luckily, no one was hurt as a result of the incident, but per CBS News, a number of local Kingston residents reported property damage.
For instance, one local resident, a woman named Sara Taglieri, later told CBS in an interview: "A gender reveal that was heard not only throughout neighborhoods but throughout many, many towns."
Taglieri added: "I’m not upset because I have chalk or confetti blown in my way, I mean it was an explosion that rocked my house, my neighbors, my community, and my town. Just absolutely over the top, ridiculous.
"I do think that they should be held responsible for that and I do think Torromeo should as the property owner that allowed this should also be held accountable."
One of the men involved in the detonation has since turned himself into the police. He is said to have been cooperative with the police thus far, and investigators are still determining which charges to file.
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