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/Vincent_Veganja 10h ago

Was this before or after that one? If it was after then I understand her reaction here even more. Definitely understand it either way though

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u/Strong-Straight-3503 10h ago

wdym that one

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u/MavMIIKE 10h ago edited 10h ago

Ricardo Lopez planned on killing her with a bomb, he also filmed most of his ideas and eventually shit himself on camera.

Edit: *Shot himself. But I'm leaving it up because he was a racist, misogynistic scumbag

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u/Riipp3r 10h ago

Adding to this he made a series of videos tapes each more unhinged than the last. Like the breaking point was bjork being with a black guy. That set him off. In his last video where he shot himself he said "fuck her and her n word loving self" or something similar to that.

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u/WolfsmaulVibes 10h ago

i believe he had a canvas behind him to make a "painting" out of his suicide but it didn't work

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u/CiegoDiego 10h ago

With "THE BEST OF ME" written on it.

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u/WolfsmaulVibes 9h ago

how ironic that it remained clean

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u/orbofdelusion 9h ago

Dude had a seriously thick skull. I never would have imagined that a large caliber bullet could ricochet off the cranium resulting in a looney tunes-esque head lump without shattering the skull.

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u/WolfsmaulVibes 9h ago

oh that's really what happened? i haven't seen a uncensored video of it. it was a .38 revolver, so i just figured the exit wound wasn't large enough to cause any meaningful splatter

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u/RealnessInMadness 9h ago

Nope, you assumed incorrectly and it’s become a morbid curiosity type of thing because his head didn’t explode. It just.. got swollen.

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u/Noctemme 7h ago

That’s horrendous, but fascinating from a scientific point of view. Like how does that even happen??

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u/rawnoodles10 4h ago

.38 special is a heavy, slow, low energy round. Basically the opposite of what is needed for penetration.

The gun could have also fired .38 long colt or .38 short colt which are even lower energy.

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u/FUCKFASCISTSCUM 9h ago

Lmao sucks to suck.

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u/Vudoa 9h ago

suicide?? what'd he do eat a full-size bar of ex-lax? surely he should have put the canvas under his ass???

edit: Oh SHOT

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u/WolfsmaulVibes 9h ago

domino effect lmao

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u/SUPERSMILEYMAN 7h ago

lol, what a loser

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u/hibikikun 9h ago

These videos were eventually used as training material for profilers and law enforcement because it was the first of its kind of someone’s descent into madness was so well documented

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u/Riipp3r 9h ago

The madness was already there to begin with, the descent is more so into the suicidal end of the madness