Parents seem to be running out of ways to reveal the gender of their unborn baby but at least most don’t end up breaking the law.
One man from Queensland, Australia, decided to share the news by using a car burnout – when a vehicle is stationary and you spin its wheels, causing the tires to heat up and smoke due to friction.
Samual Montesalvo, 30-year-old from the Gold Coast, also added blue smoke powder to put on a gender reveal show for bystanders.
But it all went spectacularly wrong when his Holden caught fire and erupted in ominous orange and black smoke.
Perhaps it was a well-planned metaphor expressing contempt for how arbitrary and archaic gender reveals are.
After being caught on police drone footage, the driver got slapped with a $1000 (£555) fine and had his license revoked for six months.
Luckily for the driver, no one was hurt.
Although the incident happened in April last year, the drone footage was released recently and made its way to local Australian news.
In the video, the back two wheels quickly catch fire after a few short stints driving down the road with blue smoke encasing the area.
Bystanders, who were blurred out, could be seen moving away from the car.
We’re not sure who the parents of the unborn child are or whether they were nearby but we can imagine it was a pretty big surprise to see the flames go up.
While it may certainly have been a bit of a dangerous stunt, it’s not the riskiest reveal.
Lest we forget the family that used a crocodile to tell the world they were having a boy.
Just don’t try this at home.
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