In April 2018, a couple's gender reveal went horribly wrong when a car caught fire.

The car fire, the result of a stunt called burnout, involves spinning the wheels of a stationary car to create smoke.

In this case, the smoke was dyed blue because, yes, it's a boy.

Queensland P olice released footage of the sequence of events to local outlets in Australia who had previously requested the footage, according to The Washington Post

Last year, the driver, a 29-year-old man, was convicted on one count of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. He was also handed down a $1,000 fine and banned from driving for six months, according to Nine News

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There are many, many reasons not to have an elaborate gender reveal ahead of a baby's birth. For one, they can be dangerous.

Take, for example, one such reveal that took place in Australia's Gold Coast in April 2018 that led to a car fire.

Queensland Police released footage of the sequence of events to local outlets in Australia who had previously requested the footage, according to The Washington Post.

—Nine News Gold Coast (@9NewsGoldCoast) July 9, 2019

The above video obtained by Nine News Gold Coast shows a burnout, a stunt that involves spinning the wheels of a stationary car to create smoke. In this particular case, the car's tires were treated so that the smoke would appear blue. Yes, it's a boy.

The car snaked down the road, smoke growing behind it, as a group watched. After completing the drive, blue smoke turned into flames. The gaggle of onlookers had seemingly dissipated, but one helped the driver out of the car.

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"Doing that sort of thing on a public road with people standing in front of the car as you're moving towards them is a pretty silly thing to do," Hilton Buckley, a Senior Traffic Officer with the Queensland Police, told Nine News.

The 29-year-old driver was convicted on one count of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle last year, police told Nine News. He was also handed down a $1,000 AUD ($695.85 USD) fine and banned from driving for six months.

While gender reveals have a reputation for extravagance in the US, it's not quite so in Australia.

"This is the first one I've seen like this," a spokesperson for the Queensland Police Service told The Washington Post. "Usually, people just have a cake."

This isn't the first gender reveal to take a dangerous turn. In April 2017, an off-duty Border Patrol agent accidentally started a 47,000-acre wildfire. It cost $8.2 million to put out. Also in July 2018 a couple in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, used fireworks to reveal their baby's gender. But something went awry and the explosives shot into the crowd, landed in the grass, and caught on fire.