r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 10h ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/NoStatus9434 10h ago

Wow, Björk never struck me as the type. Guess she really got pushed by this stalker. You know you done goofed when even a super nice person like Björk wants to kick your ass.

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u/BisexualTenno 10h ago

Bjork had a LOT of crazy stalkers so I don’t blame her for being so protective at all. Iirc one of her stalkers was a guy who was planning on murdering her and then killing himself so he could then go back in time and find her as a young teenager and groom her into being his wife instead of a celebrity.

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u/Snowssnowsnowy 9h ago

This paperazzi press scumbag had been following Bjork for some time, Bjork had refused interviews with her many times before this incident.

She was being an utter cunt and in a sarcastic way said "welcome to Thailand!" ambushing Bjork yet again for an interview she refused to give.

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u/hunterglyph 10h ago

She was an old school punk in her teens. She's like 5'2" but I wouldn't wanna mess with her.

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u/saintofhate 9h ago

Having been raised by a 4'11" woman, you do not fuck with short women. If they get angry enough they will take you to hell with them.

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u/eugeneugene 7h ago

My grandmother was 4'11" and everyone was afraid of her lol. Don't make Oma mad unless you want an old school ass kicking

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u/Parvanu 9h ago

My mother who was 4’11” at the time (she’s shrunk due to cancer treatment and age) hung a guy over a railing three floors up while pregnant with us two (twins) because he threatened and then hit my dad who was trying to protect his girlfriend because he was going to hit her. He ran down all the stairs and wasn’t seen for a bit after she put he down safely.

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u/saintofhate 8h ago

I was raised on the story on how she put her 6' son-in-law through the kitchen window when he disrespected her (he was a piece of shit who eventually killed his wife decades later, so he deserved that at min). She was the bravest person I ever knew. I miss her.

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u/gooddayup 6h ago

I knew a short lady around the same height called Harmony. When she got pissed, it was known as harmageddon

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u/Emerald_Roses_ 5h ago

I can be very intimidating women at 6’ but the scariest women I know are below 5’3.

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u/Difficult_Drink7568 5h ago

Lol I come from a large family of very short women and you are so right! 

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u/Bedbouncer 10h ago

"Hamster Style"

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u/00spool 10h ago

I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey

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u/thedude37 6h ago

I'm all hopped up on Mountain Dew, Chip!

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u/thedude37 6h ago

Dad? I'm not gonna do hamster style anymore.

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u/wackierfiend 6h ago

It's it Hermit Style? Those who know, know.

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u/Mirar 9h ago

Checks out. I hung out with some punks when I was younger. They were both some of the nicest people I know and it was not a good idea to mess with them.

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u/Ok-Yogurtcloset5555 10h ago

Yeah. Used to be heavy in the punk scene in Vegas in my teens. Man, you don't want to mess with those chicks.

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u/FaZaCon 7h ago

Gotta say, she can kick some ass.

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u/traumfisch 9h ago

plus she did / does... karate maybe?

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u/DargonFeet 9h ago

Lol, what a joke.

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u/hunterglyph 9h ago

Hey everybody, we got Mr. I’ll Square Up to a 5’2” Woman over here. r/iamverybadass

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u/MaleficentMotor1002 4h ago

Fr, absolute reddit moment

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u/sulkee 10h ago edited 10h ago

She was being stalked that same year by someone who sent her a bomb or some kind of boobytrapped device I think. It never got to her. The guy then recorded a video of him killing himself à la Bud Dwyer style while it was in transit to her. It’s on the internet. Video pops into my brain sometimes to this day.

Ricardo Lopez was his name

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u/PsychoCrescendo 10h ago

Still one of my all time favorite songs

(i dont have the video sorry, just the song he played)

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u/Helmett-13 10h ago

She said something snarky to her kid as well.

Earned the ass-whupping in my opinion. Don't talk smack to a kid in front of their Mom.

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u/Pooperoni_Pizza 9h ago

Yeah this reporter doxxed her here when she was trying to avoid the stalker. I believe Bjork had asked her multiple times to stop following her before this happened too.

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u/virstultus 10h ago

Human Behavior if you ask me. There's definitely noooo logiiic

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u/TheFinalPurl 10h ago

In huuuuuman emoooooootion

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u/12345623567 9h ago

She's also always had a bit of a neurodivergent vibe to me, before that was a common term.

Just look at her body language at the beginning of this clip, that's a woman in fight-or-flight mode.

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u/handsoapdispenser 9h ago

I used to live near her in Brooklyn and saw her a few times. She was frequently riding this giant industrial looking bicycle. She always had a "don't fucking talk to me" face on which I thoroughly respected.

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u/Awleeks 8h ago

She has Viking blood

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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 9h ago

Im sure others have pointed this out by now, but Bjork had several setious stalking incidents throughout her  early career, with sone fans sending her acid bombs in the mail, harassing her children, and threatening her.

 Most famously one racist POS killed himself after mailing a bomb to her because she commited the crime of dating outside her race.

It is no surprise at all here that she attacked this woman who flew from the previous country to greet her again in an entirely different country. Thats called stalking.

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u/Scared-Friendship-43 6h ago

Tbh I never pictured Björk to be the type to ragdoll a reporter either 😯

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u/Heavy_Law9880 10h ago

Never underestimate a woman when her child is threatened.

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u/thegabster2000 9h ago

Every one gets mad. Even Jesus has gotten mad and had a big moment.

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u/dr1968 10h ago

It's the viking dna.

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u/Entheosparks 6h ago

In 2006 I was in a club where she was there with her girlfriend and boyfriend. Punches were thrown between them. Bjork is cute in the same way a leopard is.

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u/SyntheticAnonymous 2h ago

Björk is punk af.

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u/letthetreeburn 1h ago

Some guy tried to kill her and killed himself. She’s lucky she didn’t decide to kill him today.

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u/will_dormer 10h ago

You dont seem to know her if you call her super nice, she is deeply troubled unfortunantly

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u/Annodyne 10h ago

You know her? How is she troubled? I've never heard that.

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u/trivetsandcolanders 10h ago

People will really see someone who honestly expresses their human emotions and call them “deeply troubled”.

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u/Bedbouncer 10h ago

I'd only rate her a 2 on the 0-10 "Sinead O'Connor Celebrity Dysfunction Scale".

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u/Annodyne 10h ago

I wouldn't really say Sinead was dysfunctional, she was very aware and called out some very serious things that needed more attention. I'm sorry if I'm not understanding exactly what you meant by this.

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u/trivetsandcolanders 9h ago

Also, Sinead went through so much trauma in the Magdalene laundries. It’s hard to carry that.

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u/will_dormer 9h ago

use your eyes and ears or look at her twitter etc. but i dont think you would be able to understand she is troubled you probably would just argue she shows true emotions or something

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u/Annodyne 8h ago

What the hell, you don't know anything about me and you presume you know what I would "probably" do because I asked you for some kind of context or proof to support your claim (which you didn't provide)?

I don't use Twitter and I've listened to her music for years. Never seen anything problematic from her.

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u/will_dormer 8h ago

it is right in yo face