Blown it! Excited mothers-in-law end up covered in blue powder after making matching mistakes at Halloween gender reveal
- Austin Schmidt, 25, and Katie Howe, 24, were holding a Halloween gender reveal
- Mothers-in-law Jessie and Shannon accidentally fired their flares upside down
- Both women were covered in blue smoke after the mix-up in Wisconsin
This is the moment two mother-in-laws hilariously misfired their smoke flares at a gender reveal event.
Austin Schmidt, 25, and Katie Howe, 24, were hosting a Halloween themed party at their home in Wisconsin, to announce they were having a boy.
Katie's mother, Jessie, and Austin's mother, Shannon, were given small smoke cannons to set off at the crucial moment.
Austin Schmidt, 25, and Katie Howe, 24, were hosting a Halloween-themed party at their home in Wisconsin, to announce the gender of their baby
Mother-in-laws Jessie and Shannon both activated their flares, not realizing they were holding them upside dow
As Austin and Katie poured a liquid into a plastic pumpkin to turn the contents blue for a boy, Jessie and Shannon activated their flares, not realizing they were holding them upside down.
Instead of projecting the blue smoke into the air as intended, both grandparents-to-be fired the flare into their stomachs, staining their tops in the process.
The two women weren't the first to have problems with gender reveal flares, but at least their mistake wasn't a painful one.
In September 2020, one father-to-be accidentally set off a gender reveal flare straight into his crotch, prompting a friend to joke 'no need for that vasectomy'.
Kristen Cressotti, 36, and husband Tom, 43, hosted the gender reveal party at their home in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, with an unexpectedly painful outcome.
The cannons were facing the wrong way, leaving Tom's groin to take the full brunt of the blast, which was meant to shoot powder 30 feet away.
