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The issue of gender has been a constant topic of discussion in recent years with reference to people’s rights and lifestyles but rather concerning dangerous car driving.

An Australian father to be has been arrested at a gender reveal party.

His method of announcing the child’s gender was to do a burnout with special car tyres that produced appropriately coloured smoke, in this case blue.

Even ignoring the silliness of gender reveal parties, a dangerous method seems even more silly.

Why not use a cake or some balloons or just wait till the baby is born? It appears that in this fast world we have to know everything immediately.

Anticipation has been replaced by satisfaction.

His driving licence is also likely to go up in smoke.

Dennis Fitzgerald,

Melbourne, Australia