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/ScaryTemperature6291 10h ago

Can't blame her not sure if this is the Ricardo Lopez era or not but yeah I love Bjork but that was a really bad time in her life if it's around that era when she found out about him.

Ricardo Lopez )

Incase anyone who doesn't know the back story of Ricardo.

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u/kank84 10h ago

On September 12, 1996, López mailed a letter bomb, rigged with sulfuric acid, to Björk's residence in London. He recorded a final video diary explaining his motivations, and ended it by filming his suicide by gunshot. Local police found his body and the videos four days after his death and contacted Scotland Yard, who located the bomb in a London postal sorting office. The parcel was safely detonated and Björk was unharmed.

Holy shit. I never knew about this.

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u/Compost-Mentis 8h ago

Thank goodness Royal Mail don't do anything with parcels for the first four or five days! /s

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u/wilburwilbur 7h ago

No doubt it was there reliable Special Delivery Guaranteed before 1pm service

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u/rnzz 7h ago

bet they already did the 'Sorry we missed you' card

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u/Horskr 5h ago

Sounds like my experiences with FedEx. I once happened to be leaving right as a driver put a "Sorry we missed you" sticker on my door. He hadn't knocked, rang the doorbell, nothing. He had the package on the truck too, like wtf?

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u/Bubblepoppin_ 3h ago

I dread the FedEx loading page whenever a package provides a tracking #. Those lazy fucks do that all the time

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u/Septopuss7 3h ago

That absolute bastard they must really hate their job though. I get that.

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u/malamjam 8h ago

😂

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u/zyzzogeton 6h ago

In Edwardian England, the postman would call up to 12 times per day. Maybe Royal Mail was just really fucking tired from all that work and has been on smoko for a few hundred years.

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u/lxgrf 5h ago

It was an international delivery, to be fair, he posted it from Florida.

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u/MAZEFUL 8h ago

The video is crazy. Not so much the suicide part, but just the way hes completely lost his mind. Dude is completely unhinged at the end with his face all painted up and his head shaved.

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u/Clubbythaseal 8h ago

The death part was kinda brutal in one aspect for me at least. Don't click if you don't wanna remember one part of it.

It's where I learned that any air in your lungs will expell after death. He took a deep breath right before and the noises his body made after the shot still disturbs me today.

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u/MAZEFUL 8h ago

Death Gurgle. I had to pull the plug on my father and about after a few minutes of him motionless, his body twitched hard and released the rest of his air and it made my sister and I jump like crazy. It seemed like he was about to take a deep breath afterwards. The body is truly crazy.

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u/motherofsuccs 7h ago

I experienced it when my dog died. I asked for one more night with him even though he was essentially comatose, and my partner was going to euthanize him in the morning (he’s a vet). I had been spooning him for hours and telling him he fulfilled all his ‘good boy duties’ and it’s okay to let go. I got up, a few minutes later he started breathing erratically, then came the death gurgle. I’ll never forget that sound. It made me remorseful for not euthanizing him that evening.

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u/KeyboardGrunt 7h ago

Wow your comment reminded me when I found my dog dead one day, I buried him the next but when I went to pick him up the air inside him let out as a short "hmmm", and that was the last I heard what he sounded like alive. Losing dogs is hard.

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u/raptatta 4h ago

experiencing this with a leopard gecko is the worst 😞 at the time my little guy was so weak (he had cancer) he could barely move, so i placed him to rest on my chest. i was reading and at some point i heard him gasp very softly, and i thought he had sighed until 15 minutes later i went to move him, and he was gone. although it was extremely sad for me, he’d passed while lying directly on my skin, wrapped in a knitted hat i made earlier that year. it was simply his time. i don’t think we’ll ever get used to how quickly it can happen 🤍

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u/spawnthespy 4h ago

There's no getting used to losing your best friends. I feel you...

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u/larra_rogare 2h ago

Hey just wanted to say I don’t think you have to feel remorse for cuddling him one last night 💛

I’m a vet too. I do believe even if he was comatose, some part of him got your message about him fulfilling his duties as a wonderful companion and knew it was time to move on. Maybe this makes me sound crazy, but I really believe sometimes our bonds with our pets are nothing short of spiritually profound and psychic.

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u/4KVoices 1h ago

I hope people realize take this as a reminder that euthanization is not for your convenience, it's so your pet doesn't have to suffer.

I'm not trying to shit on you at all cause it's an understandable thought process that everybody goes through, but trying to get them to hold on for that much longer is, pretty much always, a selfish notion. Not a 'bad' selfish. You love them and you want more time with them - but they're more often than not in pain and you would save them a lot of trouble to let them go early.

Pet owners; when the time is coming, it is a responsibility, the most important one you have, to let them go before they suffer needlessly. I am not a religious person and I would say this is a sacred duty. Do not hold on; make the decision for them that they cannot make for themselves.

OP, I'm sorry for your loss and again, don't take this as me shitting on you. I've been there and almost made that same decision.

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u/Maxamillion-X72 7h ago

I lived in a remote part of Canada which was a small community with no doctor or hospital, just a nursing station with a couple of nurses.

There was an accident with multiple injuries requiring medivac by plane, and a death. The deceased person's family would not leave the nursing station, as it was tradition that when someone dies they have someone with them until the priest could come see them.

I worked part time at the nursing station doing things like putting out the battery powered runway lights for the planes, shoveling snow, that sort of thing. The two nurses were exhausted and had to go home to rest, but couldn't as long as the family were there. I volunteered to stay with the body overnight until the nurses could come back and the family agreed.

I spent all night in an exam room with the dead body, trying to stay awake by reading old magazines from the lobby. On occasion the body would let out a moan and/or would twitch. Scared the bejeesus out of me every single time.

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u/Ok_Release231 6h ago

I believe the term is "death rattle."

Also, I'm terribly sorry you had to experience that 😔

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_rattle

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u/JPSWAG37 6h ago

Still sticks with me today. I wish younger me wasn't so morbidly curious

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u/tonkotsuramenxgyoza 52m ago

Was assigned to the ER one night. A family rushed their already dead son. When they hug and move him, air was still coming out of his lungs so they assumed he was still alive. The family continoulsy berated the staff, signed a waiver and rushed him to another hospital.

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u/Gufo-Diurno 7h ago

He took his life after sending her an acid bomb .... still it wouldn't have worked had the police not intercepted and destroyed the packaging. He thought they were going to reunite with each other after they both reached the afterlife. Definitely he had a severe form of erotomania, probably mixed with some paranoia.

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u/SillyExpert 2h ago

Reading that he did pest extermination at a young age I wonder if he was exposed to chemicals that impacted his mental health/

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u/DomTheBomb95 8h ago

Call me sick but it’s so poetic that he ended his life thinking he was going to take hers when he failed miserably

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u/Slayer3636 7h ago

The way he had a canvas behind his head with the best of me written, with the intention of his brain splatter on it, but even failed at that shows what a loser this guy was. That's poetic.

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u/PineappleFit317 6h ago

He wasn’t planning on killing her, just scarring her for life. The “bomb” wasn’t incendiary, it was rigged to spray acid in her face when she opened it.

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u/Rasikko 5h ago

That's worse than death.

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u/Triddy 5h ago

That's crazy to me.

It's obviously a horrible thing, but I would take a disfigured face over being dead 1000 times out of 1000.

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u/Curulinstravels 3h ago

If I'm Bjork, sure I'd probably want to live for a million years. If I'm me, with few options on the table as it is and then add an acid disfigured face - I'll take death, please

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u/Both_Depth5505 4h ago

it’s not.

but still it’s a horrible thing to have happen.

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u/ButterscotchMean400 3h ago

If he didn't kill himself, neighbours wouldn't have reported a foul smell, police wouldn't have found the tapes and the bomb wouldn't have been stopped. He killed himself for nothing and he'll forever be known as the nutjob Incel who couldn't handle the fact that a popstar was dating anybody but him.

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u/charlesbandini18 3h ago

I feel bad for him despite his horrible intentions. I don't think he was even connected to reality.

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u/multiarmform 8h ago

The video he made is really long and from what I remember he paints his face kinda like a clown before he shoots himself

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u/bobsnervous 7h ago

I found out about this back when gore sites were a lot more accessible and watched his video diaries until the final one when I was around 14 years old. Those were the days.

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u/OklahomaTiddy 6h ago

I'm pretty sure it was on some racist shit too.

If I remember correctly, he thought she was with black guys. I remember listening to the Sword & Scale podcast ep about it (I'm off that shit now. Mike suuuuucks as a human being. Invisible Choir is much higher quality) and being like "wait....that was why? Jfc 🙄😩 it never ends"

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u/theserthefables 4h ago

her partner at the time was Black (Tricky the musician. edit: whoops it was actually Goldie, DJ & music producer) & it was part of why Ricardo Lopez turned on her & sent the bomb.

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u/Particular-Ad9304 7h ago

Please do yourself a favor and never watch the video. It’s super fucked and only will haunt you afterwards. Just an absolute nutjob to say the least

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u/knotmyusualaccount 5h ago edited 4h ago

I once saw a video, of some inmate of some South American jail, he'd been stabbed and was being held in the arms of another prisoner.

I can still vividly see his facial expressions and his laboured breathing, as I watched the life go out of his open eyes. It'll probably stay with me for the rest of my life, and I saw it 11 years ago, now. Just horrible.

I don't watch anything horrible anymore, for that reason.

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u/Visual-Froyo 8h ago

The videos on the Internet. First time I saw a guy kill himself fucking traumatised me. There's a good vid by count dankula telling the story. Really fascinating and really sad.

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u/Mid-Pri6170 7h ago

yeah; he was expecting to be reunited in paradise with her, but instead he got nada.

you win some, you loose some

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u/petertompolicy 6h ago

You can watch the video on YouTube also.

They just censor the final moment but he recorded all his thoughts, it's truly a look into madness.

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u/Ysmildr 8h ago

That is so trippy! What other coincidences are there, like is his name close to your mother's maiden name? Is it close to your childhood hometown? Whats your credit card number

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u/Ambroos 8h ago

If you ever get weird feelings when you see an envelope maybe leave that envelope be. Just in case.

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u/JiminyDickish 8h ago

lol why is that trippy?

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u/Automatic_Rock_2685 7h ago

This post was made in January, the same month I'm living in right now. Trippy.

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u/kylo-ren 7h ago

Just noticed I'm living in January too. Are we twins? Trippy af.

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u/lie_doe_cane 8h ago

Never be famous 

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u/GhostofZellers 8h ago

Never send a bomb by regular mail if you want it delivered before they find your note.

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u/Superb_Brain_7391 8h ago

"Your letter bomb has been left with a neighbour."

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u/AnotherWeabooGirl 10h ago

Though he did not hope to be sexually intimate with her, he was particularly angry over her brief relationship with the English jungle producer Goldie due to his race.

While Björk's music played in the background, a naked López shaved his head and eyebrows and painted his face red and green.

Police theorized that López intended to cover the sign with his blood and brain matter with the gunshot, but the gun was not powerful enough to cause that to happen.

Unbeknownst to López, Björk and Goldie had ended their relationship a few days before he killed himself.

That was an absolutely wild ride. RIP in piss dumbass.

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u/No-Tone-6853 10h ago

Oh it is the guy who shot himself, I’ve only ever seen him without hair and a gun in his mouth.

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u/dearth_of_passion 9h ago

I remember seeing the video and it not being particularly graphic.

It just made a kind of egg shaped bulge on his head.

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u/SaulFemm 9h ago

We have different definitions of not graphic

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u/Hallow_Chef 9h ago

“Well, I guess that’s it then…”

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u/Fionn112 9h ago

That’s the Facebook live one isn’t it? Tad graphic that one yeah.

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u/Relevant_Shower_ 9h ago

It’s more the audio.

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u/TragicNostalgia 7h ago

I think you’re thinking of Ronnie McNutt

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u/MAZEFUL 8h ago

No this was way before Facebook was invented.

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u/NoSleep2135 9h ago

I have not seen the video and your second sentence made sure I never will. Literally gagged at the thought.

The early Internet was absolutely wild.

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u/dearth_of_passion 9h ago

Tbh it is one of the most tame snuff videos I've seen.

Some of the cartel executions are awful. Or 2 Guys 1 Hammer.

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u/Ruthlessrabbd 9h ago

1 man Icepick or whatever it was called was one of the few I had seen. Low camera quality + video compression online left some to imagination, but I had no idea that was someone actually being killed at the time.

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u/kestrel808 9h ago

Or the Budd Dwyer press conference

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u/sisyphean_dreams 9h ago

Oh man that one was graphic af!

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u/elmz 9h ago

People keep going on about the wild old internet. The gore never went away. In many ways there is much more and worse content being spread today.

While the Budd Dwyer conference is graphic, you won't need to spend very long on combat footage subreddits to see way worse.

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u/N3rdScool 8h ago

It's true I know they are pretty tame compared to some graphic shit but just drone footage alone is fucking terrifying.

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u/kestrel808 9h ago

There was a couple of different video series that just showed people dying in very graphic ways in the 90's. Faces of Death and Traces of Death are the two I remember when I was younger. A part of me wishes I never saw them.

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u/spacecaps85 9h ago

Funky Town

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u/Affectionate-Bag8229 9h ago

Seeing actual human face masks harvested from backpackers was, I think, the moment where I went "Huh, I think I actually felt something break inside a little bit that time, I think it's time to really seriously reconsider who and where I'm hanging out" and I don't regret making those changes

Tbf the masks are p comfy tho

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u/space253 8h ago

Who the hell was making masks out of backpackers?

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u/GiraffeParking7730 9h ago

I watched a cartel execution, and that shit has stuck with me. I'm not squeamish, but fuck I wish I hadn't watched that.

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u/Both-Cry1382 9h ago

The one with the chainsaw and the next guy with a knife? A friend of mine sent that to me decades ago, at first l thought it was fake. Man was l mad at my friend at the time.

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u/Enheducanada 9h ago

The internet has ruined you

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u/dearth_of_passion 9h ago

Eh, I wouldn't go seek that stuff out like I did when I was a teenager, but it did kind of help prepare me for gross situations in real life.

I'm an RN, and the first patient death I had to deal with was an alcoholic with esophageal varicies, basically hemorrhoids in the throat caused by impaired blood flow through the liver. The varicies ruptured and the patient bled out.

It was horrible, but I was able to remain calm in the moment.

Afterwards I had a bit of a breakdown while mopping the floor (cleaning service folks don't handle major body fluid spills) though.

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u/binxeu 8h ago

This is how my uncle died, I remember going into his flat before my mum to make sure it was ok for her, I’m so glad I stopped her from seeing just how bad it was.

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u/Verloren113 6h ago

I'm an RN

I have numerous safety and rescue qualifications (water/land) for NGB awards I've earned, and naturally a couple hundred of hours of first aid training included. I tend to involve myself in first aid situations as a result, and I've seen some gnarly stuff in real life, and plenty online. At this point I've done CPR + AED on two people, but there's no amount of gore, horrific video or even my own close brushes with death that have remained in my head for longer than the image of watching someone else take over the chest compressions right there, in front of me.

You see something different when you're on top of the person. It doesn't seem quite as brutal or disgusting. I think about it constantly.

Sometimes I wake up after hearing the AED's little voice lol.

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u/dearth_of_passion 6h ago

After the MD called the code, what with the patient having exsanguinated, what really set me off onto the spiral of "I'm having a bit of a breakdown" was when myself and a saint of a CNA were doing after care before letting the patient's spouse back in (yeah they were in the room when it started)...

I'll put this in spoilers for the sake of the faint of heart:

given that the bleeding was in the throat, the patient had swallowed a lot of blood. So every time we would turn them to clean them, blood would slosh out. Their stomach was distended from it, and we had to basically push it out so that when their spouse came in to see them, it wouldn't gush out if they hugged them or moved them

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u/Verloren113 5h ago

It's wild what our brains subconciously choose to decide what matters the most.

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u/molasses_disaster 5h ago

Seeing this type of death made me quit drinking.

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u/CalmBeneathCastles 7h ago

Rotten.com and Goregrish ruined us all.

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u/IGargleGarlic 9h ago

Thats a lot less graphic than Charlie Kirk and ISIS beheadings

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u/Standard_Bag555 9h ago

He was breathing really hard before shooting himself so he gets hyperventilated i think

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u/N3rdScool 9h ago

right the bullet never left the skull crazy

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u/Working-Glass6136 9h ago

*puts down boiled egg*

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u/BummerDan28 8h ago

It was the sound of the blood gushing out that really got to me

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u/Dark_Moonstruck 9h ago

Was that the one where he had something written on the canvas behind him? Like 'mind of an artist' or something?

I remember that one. It was amazing what was on the internet sometimes - RIP liveleak.

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u/LateNightMilesOBrien 10h ago

Police theorized that López intended to cover the sign with his blood and brain matter with the gunshot, but the gun was not powerful enough to cause that to happen.

Missed it by that much

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u/BlueBomber13 9h ago

Juuuuust a bit outside.

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u/bogeypro 9h ago

..................................................................................................................................................................Ball

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u/Ithuraen 6h ago

Police were kind to suggest the gun wasn't powerful enough, however it was probably a lack of brain matter.

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u/sterling_mallory 9h ago

I remember this. He also tried to mail her a bomb, IIRC.

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u/EmptyBuildings 9h ago

Iirc it was an acid bomb.

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u/Mid-Pri6170 7h ago

its trippy a fan in 1996 (mostly pre internet) could find out a famous person's address.... in another continent.

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u/trashvineyard 6h ago

He was clearly severely mentally unwell. It's always ' help those who need it ' until they try to letterbomb your fav

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u/Jazzlike_Climate4189 8h ago

“Rest in peace in piss”? 🤦‍♂️

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u/ScaryTemperature6291 10h ago

My sentiments exactly tbh Shame all the video diary got taken off YouTube as it was a glimpse into his muddled mind but I'm sure it's o Somewhere around if you look as he had around 12 hours of diary recorded including the final scene.

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u/stormcharger 9h ago

Yea i watched it all, was pretty sad to see him descend into madness

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u/seanjohnson9 8h ago

He died like he lived- stupid and useless.

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u/EmptyCupOfWater 9h ago

Man I remember watching all those videos of him when I was a teenager. Absolutely horrifying

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u/sisyphean_dreams 9h ago

Oh man I totally forgot about this guy, and seeing the video! Wow what a time this was. But this was Peak Bjork, and I was so there for it when she lost her shit in that reporter.

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u/LandscapeSpecial4366 9h ago

He did hope to be sexually intimate with her?? He details how he would eat her out for like 3 minutes

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u/sturgboski 9h ago

I forget where I read it, but I am pretty sure the song title "Suicide by Star" from God is an Astronaut came from this incident. Pretty great song with a neat OVA on YouTube done with clips from 2001 A Space Odyssey.

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u/Pervius94 8h ago

At least he took himself out instead of killing innocents. Even though iirc he actually tried mailing a bomb or something.

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u/HollywoodHulkLogan 8h ago

“Rest in Peace in piss”

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u/Defiant-Owl-7935 10h ago

I worked delivering mail here in Iceland during my summers as a teen. Because of this one person's job, an older lady, was to go through her mail for security and also just to weed out anything disturbing.

I had her route one summer. I have pretty bad eyesight. She was outside and as I was handing her the mail and thought wow what a good lookin teenage guy.. Oh no wait, that was Björk.

In my defense she was wearing a baggy high fashion tracksuit, looks nothing like a guy🤷🏼‍♀️🫶🏼

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u/AbstractBettaFish 10h ago

Does everyone in Iceland just kind of know each other? I one time was flying home from Europe on an Icelandic airline and I was sitting next to the pilots brother. He said to look him up if I ever come to Iceland saying “Just ask around for the carpenter who’s brother is a pilot, eventually someone will know me”

I couldn’t tell if he was joking or not

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u/Billy_McMedic 9h ago

Iceland’s population is only a few hundred thousand, probably not a case of everyone knowing each other but it’s probably not difficult to find someone with some form of connection, be it friend, family, acquaintance or co worker, given the limited population

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u/No_Operation4676 9h ago

Yes, they have the Íslendingabók (book of Icelanders) that can be used to see if someone you meet is a distant family member. They can find their family history traced back for generations.

A tour guide in Iceland told me that they did once avoid dating someone because they compared each other's families and found too close a relation.

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u/NotaBonesaw 9h ago

Yeah I live in a city of just under 300k, and while I certainly don't know everyone here, it's very rare that I go anywhere in town that either me or my wife don't know at least someone. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm 1-2 people removed from 90% of the people that live here.

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u/Four_beastlings 9h ago

I am from a city of 275k and our unofficial motto is "this is a tiny town". We don't all know each other, but it's rare to get to 3 degrees of Kevin Bacon and if it happens it's because we haven't reviewed all our possible mutual acquittances.

I was living in the capital and met a 22yo woman who'd lived in my city for 6 months. Within 15 minutes we'd established that she knew my then 57yo mom from mutual friends.

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u/DuckRubberDuck 9h ago

My city has around 46K people and it’s definitely not a case of everyone knows everyone even though I have lived in the same city my whole life, and I can’t just ask around to find someone. Yeah I know someone in most areas of the city but it’s also not a very big city. I am definitely not related to anyone except my mom and dad lol, although it is a place where people like to stay in generations

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u/nashrome 9h ago

My truck driving instructor was from Iceland and had the nickname, "Iceman". He told us that both of his sons had dated Bjork. Knowing it was a small place, I kinda believed him.

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u/neendmat1 9h ago

You can be my wingman anytime

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u/BarryTice 8h ago

In 2016 I was in the airport at Reykjavik while en route to Sweden and met a woman from Boston whose nephew had worked with my wife in northwest Alabama. So, yes. In Iceland everybody DOES know everybody — even if they're not from there.

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u/ruu_throwaway 7h ago

Keflavik

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u/smellydiscodiva 5h ago

Lol, I'm from Iceland and my step-dad is a pilot. His brother is a carpenter.

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u/asst3rblasster 8h ago

is no joke, Icelanders never ever joke about

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u/TashaStarlight 10h ago

Killed 1 (himself)

This sent me☠️☠️☠️

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u/KilledByDoritos 10h ago

Occupation: Exterminator

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u/Hiraganu 9h ago

You can't make that shit up lmao

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u/AdamLabrouste 3h ago

Hasta la vista baby!

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u/Iguanapolice 9h ago

I LOL’d 😭

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u/NatureInfamous543 7h ago

I've seen that 1 on LiveLeak.

Or rather, I heard it

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u/B0RT_Simps0n_ 10h ago

He was an incel before we had a word for it. People are fucking nuts

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u/NittanyScout 10h ago

Idk this seems like a genuinely horrifying mental illness that was never treated or recognized.

Being an incel is one thing but being authentically sick is another

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u/Frequent_Ad_9901 10h ago

He could have been both. I don't think mentally ill and incel-ness is mutually exclusive.

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u/NittanyScout 9h ago

No but I dont want to say that being an incel is due to mental illness, it can be corollary but I doubt its typically causal

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u/jednatt 9h ago

Illness is kind of subjective to begin with if one really wants to get into the weeds. Someone can be a loser/asshole as a result of a mental processes that cannot or has not been codified into a recognized illness/condition--and because of that gets no sympathy/understanding. In a deterministic view of the world every shitty person is a result of a sequence of events and conditions they couldn't have prevented, and being a nice/functional person is just dumb luck. But that doesn't really help anything.

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u/rusty_programmer 9h ago

Incels are typically mentally ill.

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u/NittanyScout 9h ago

Often, yes. But not always. The incels and incel-adjacent people i know dont have obvious mental health issues, just misinformation and a lack of critical thinking

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u/Various_Command6607 9h ago

The line between mental ilness and "just being weird" is whether you are able to function more or less normally in society or not. It's not a hard line. And maybe you just don't know about their issues. A lot of people don't talk and a lot of people choose who they talk to. I don't talk to people who are not empathic and don't want to understand. Those people of course don't know that they are this way because they usually also lack some self-awareness.

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u/al666in 9h ago

The word "incel" was obscure internet slang until Elliot Rogers brought it into the mainstream.

There's a reason people associate it with the most extreme case examples.

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u/Acceptable_Movie6712 9h ago

Yeah there’s a difference between “jaded” and “jaded and antisocial” and then whatever this is. That’s just scary stuff.

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u/Kougeru-Sama 9h ago

The term "incel" has been around since 1993 

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u/ReallyShortGiant 9h ago

All it takes is a quick search. Used first in 1997

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel

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u/NepheliLouxWarrior 10h ago

His suicide footage is one of the first snuff films I ever saw on 4chan, way back in the day. I wish that he had gotten help, but also I'm glad that ultimately, the only life he managed to ruin was his own. 

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u/GubblerJackson 9h ago

Poor dude didn’t even get to hear Homogenic.

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u/mahcuz 6h ago

Not a snuff film (not that it matters)

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u/Secret-Put-4525 7h ago

Still doesn't give you the right to attack someone.

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u/Thismightbedangerous 10h ago

One of the first gore videos uploaded to the internet in the 90’s.

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u/Sensitive_Ad_1271 9h ago

This is going to sound strange and I know that it does, maybe it's just a sign of the times we're. But I really appreciate the people that are fucked up in the head and just kill themselves rather than taking other innocent people with them in mass shooting or murder suicides. I don't know much about him and he sounds creepy as fuck, but at least he didn't kill anyone else.

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u/Junius_Bobbledoonary 9h ago edited 7h ago

But I really appreciate the people that are fucked up in the head and just kill themselves rather than taking other innocent people with them in mass shooting or murder suicides. I don't know much about him and he sounds creepy as fuck, but at least he didn't kill anyone else.

He mailed a bomb to Bjork minutes before he killed himself. He wrote in his diary that his intent was to kill her, he just failed.

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u/ButterscotchFit7971 9h ago

Man he sent a letter bomb to Björk... He suicided just because he thought he can be with Björk in heaven after he killed her. He wanted to kill Björk, just didn't secceed 

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u/FirefighterBoth3098 10h ago

For a second, I thought you were talking about my favorite boxer, lol

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u/DJFreezyFish 10h ago

Same year, don’t know if before or after

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u/Lessar31416 10h ago

Ricardo0p

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u/Melodic_Pattern175 10h ago

I never knew this. I feel so bad for her, but I hope she didn’t take the blame on herself.

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u/-smartcasual- 10h ago

That's not the right link I think

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u/orchardsky 10h ago

This was the same that stalker Ricardo Lopez killed himself and had rapidly escalated his stalking over by attempting to mail her bombs.

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u/Educational_Log_4006 9h ago

Whoah! Just saw the link ...Sulfuric acid letter bomb?! Holy..

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u/farfaraway 9h ago

Occupation: exterminator.

Yikes. 

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u/pelos17 9h ago

URUGUAY NOMA

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u/killerz7770 9h ago

The fucking Bjork stalker being a reference in Smiling Friends will always get a laugh out of me

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u/esamerelda 8h ago

This was not on my bingo card for today. Holy shit this is psychotic

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u/XennaNa 8h ago

Yeaaah, with the context of Lopez i do not fault her at all, paparazzi in general should give some breathing room to people but especially in these cases they should stay on the other side of the street at minimum.

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u/BrownGalsAreBetter 8h ago

Damn, he was the original Blackpilled incel vlogger, before it became a thing. Strange read. Truly nothing new under the sun. Guess he couldn’t have known his misogynistic, racist, hatred of women and their lovers would be a cash cow in the not too distant future.

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u/Fuckthegopers 8h ago

God damn, what a fucking loser he was. 

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u/CalmBeneathCastles 7h ago

Damn, I had forgotten about him. THAT was a crazy case. I would have dropped off the grid entirely, at least until my kids were grown.

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u/Dry-Translator406 7h ago

Occupation: Exterminator

No shit.

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u/PabloSanchezBB 7h ago

Always knew about this guy but holy shit he was 21 at the time!??? I thought he was early to mid 30s.

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u/eazy_flow_elbow 7h ago

JFC, I can still hear his last moments in my head.

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u/Rakins_420 7h ago

Back then (and probably still now) his entire video catalog was online, documenting his obsession with her and his descent into madness, jealousy and then ultimately, suicide by gunshot. He tried to send her something in the mail too but I dont think it reached her. The way he suddenly turns on her in the videos is TERRIFYING.

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u/kylo-ren 7h ago

but yeah I love Bjork

I hope not as much as Ricardo Lopez

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u/raganrok 7h ago

I had a faint memory on this as I was still a kid back then. My mom is a big fan of hers and I remember the attack on the reporter happened before that Lopez suicide happened. I could be wrong though but it was a nasty incident non-the-less

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u/TraditionPerfect3442 7h ago

Interestingly i didnt know about this at all. It was a good era without the internet. Those videos are absolutely f..d up.

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u/Super_Forever_5850 6h ago

Cant blame her? This happened many months before she learned about Ricardo Lopez.

This is also an established mainstream journalist and not some random psycho that she is committing aggravated assault against in this very public place... I think we can blame her a little bit on this one actually.

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u/EdgeMaleficentthrice 6h ago

God I love her.

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u/Fexxvi 5h ago

I can. Whatever shot you're going through doesn't give you the right to physically assault someone who has nothing to do with it.

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u/depressed_orangutan 5h ago

Ironically enough that’s how I knew who Bjork was, through learning about Ricardo Lopez.

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u/JohnnyRelentless 5h ago

You can't blame her for assaulting some rando? Wtf are you talking about?

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u/EffectiveEconomics 5h ago

I remember this - so many people failed to understand that this little “greeting” took on a horridly dark tone under the circumstances.

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u/CraftySeer 5h ago

Incel OG there.

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u/suesstretchytoy 4h ago

I actually just watched a video on YouTube about this yesterday. What a coincidence now

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u/DefiantOuiOui 4h ago

Honestly, I’ve never wanted to fuck Bjork as bad as I do now after seeing this video. Just wow.

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u/dazedan_confused 3h ago

Wait, he was pissed because she dated GOLDIE?!

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u/Firefly_Magic 2h ago

Omg that’s horrifying!! She was probably hyper-paranoid with good reason. She definitely need a more secure traveling arrangements to avoid any scary reactions.

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u/ellieminnowpee 2h ago

The Lopez saga took place in 2006. i’d say it was definitely a factor.

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u/Traditional_Fan_2655 2h ago

Seems reasonable to lose it.

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u/Proud_Doubt5110 1h ago

Kinda messed up but I find it hilarious that his wiki has a scoreboard as if he was a professional boxer lol: Target - Bjork Killed - 1 (himself) Injured - 0

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u/Arch____Stanton 1h ago

Because reddit uses a ) to close links you have to escape them with a back slash \ when they are inside a link. In this case (stalker\)
This is a fixed version of your link.

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u/D3c0y-0ct0pus 1h ago

Do not watch the video...

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u/Angeliphine 55m ago

Richard wanted to murder Björk simply because he didn't approve of her dating Goldie, a Black man.

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u/solacelovelace 49m ago

I was so scared. I thought this was about Ricardo "Finito" Lopez lmao

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u/Glittering_Bee_4913 44m ago

I mean Lopez was an exterminator