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    Woman blows up wedding dress with 20 lbs. of Tannerite to celebrate divorce

    Big bang: You could feel this Texan’s divorce being finalized from ’15 miles away,’ video shows

    https://www.star-telegram.com/news/n...221527670.html

    BY MATTHEW MARTINEZ
    mmartinez@mcclatchy.com
    November 12, 2018 09:57 AM
    Updated 10 hours 27 minutes ago

    Kimberly Santleben-Stiteler held her breath for just a second as she squeezed the trigger of the scoped rifle.

    When the glow of that great big orange explosion lit up her face Saturday night, she says waves of relief — or maybe it was adrenaline — flowed throughout the rest of her body.

    That garage-sized fireball had just killed .... her wedding dress. Her marriage of 14 years had finally been put out of its misery the day before in a Medina County courtroom, family members say.

    Then the texts and Facebook messages started pouring in.

    “We were all getting messages asking if that was our explosion people were feeling and hearing around the county, up to at least 15 miles away,” Carla Santleben-Newport, Kimberly’s sister, told McClatchy. “It was like, ‘Uh, is everything okay over there’?”

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    Kimberly Santleben-Stiteler wears her “I’m not with stupid” crown after lighting up her wedding dress from 200 yards away.
    Carla Santleben-Newport Courtesy

    The explosion she says was felt through parts of Medina County came from Kimberly’s divorce party, at their father’s farm in the small town of Lacoste, about 25 miles west of San Antonio. She had about 40 guests, who all cheered when the dress was no more, according to KSAT, which first reported on the explosive exclamation mark at the end of her marriage.

    “I wanted to remove all things from our marriage from our house,” Kimberly, 43, told McClatchy. “Photos in the attic, ring in the safe (but probably going to sell it) and the dress I wanted to burn.

    “I had a lot of advice and suggestions from friends and family, like donating it for premature babies and baptism gowns. However, to me, the dress represented a lie. I wanted to have a divorce party to burn the dress.”

    But she didn’t just throw it in a campfire and shed a tear because things didn’t work out. Her dad and brother-in-law ratcheted the “burn the dress” idea up a notch with some exploding targets.

    Kimberly went full-on target practice with the dress from 200 yards out. But that’s not all. The dress was rigged with $200 worth — or 20 pounds — of Tannerite, which is the explosive component of those explosive targets used for longer range firearms training. She honed her shooting skills with some practice before the party — because with that much Tannerite, the family wasn’t sure that shooting the dress from 100 yards away would be safe enough.

    “We have a friend who is a bomb tech, and he kept saying, ‘that’s really a lot,’ like five different times, when we told him our plan, so we had to back it up,” Carla said.

    Sisters Kimberly Santleben-Stiteler (left), Carla Santleben-Newport (middle) and Christie Paoletti (right) at Kimberly’s divorce party.
    Carla Santleben-Newport Courtesy

    But Kimberly still hit the bullseye — her wedding dress — on her first shot, Carla said.

    “On the one hand, it was like being on set of some action movie. The explosion was huge,” Kimberly said. “It was liberating pulling that trigger. It was closure for all of us.”

    Kimberly Santleben-Stiteler sits with her father after blowing up her wedding dress at her divorce party.
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11



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    Why didn't the Texican tell us his wife was divorcing him?
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    That can't be legal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
    That can't be legal.
    They made divorce legal a long time ago.
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    The opposite of love isn't hate. It's indifference. She's got a long way to go.

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    See how transphobic Texas is??
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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    See how transphobic Texas is??
    Just wait.

    Now that the feds have seen this, it shouldn't be long before they come down hard on her.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
    That can't be legal.
    Write your congressman.

    Even better than voting hard.

    I'm sure the new Congress will be happy to ban it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Write your congressman.

    Even better than voting hard.

    I'm sure the new Congress will be happy to ban it.
    I have a feeling in the not to distant future it will require a photo I.D. and a background check to purchase.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    I have a feeling in the not to distant future it will require a photo I.D. and a background check to purchase.
    Probably already does require ID because they probably have an age limit of 18 or 21 on it .
    Do something Danke

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    I am glad I never married that woman . What ingratitude . Buy her a nice dress she only wears once then she throws away a couple hundred to burn it .
    Do something Danke



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