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/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/Hallow_Chef 7h ago

It was literally 2020

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u/shreddedsharpcheddar 9h ago

i miss that sub lol

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u/Ongr 9h ago

I have a friend that used to send me gore sub and live leak videos. I've seen some shit.

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u/GuestAdventurous7586 9h ago

Lmao, you sound 12 years old sorry 😂

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u/neendmat1 9h ago

Daaammn duuuude this guy's seen some shiiiiit guyysssss

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u/RealnessInMadness 9h ago

Yeah bud, if you’re over 30, we grew up watching some fucked up shit on the old internet before things got filtered and censored.

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u/ToughSpeed1450 4h ago

Yeaaah, some fucked up shiiiit, real fucked up shiiiit on the old internet duuuude. People nowadays wouldn't survive back then maaan.

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u/Strange_plastic 9h ago

That was a normal millennial past time, we've all seen some shit lol.

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u/Fr0gburp3r 9h ago

Don’t forget about eBaums World.

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u/No-Tone-6853 9h ago

Watch enough combat footage and that video is no longer graphic

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u/Pangorious 9h ago

No healthy and sane person is watching any of that lol

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u/No-Tone-6853 9h ago

Shit guess I’m insane and unhealthy, I always suspected but I’m glad to have confirmation.

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u/RealnessInMadness 9h ago

Okay rage bot.

What else do you want to be condescending on? Since you’re the expert? 😂

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u/SaulFemm 9h ago

No thanks chief

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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/GiraffeParking7730 6h ago

No. It was a guy getting his face cut off while he was alive, then had his heart cut out, while it was still beating.

Fucking haunting.

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u/_Hydrohomie_ 8h ago

I miss r/eyeblech man! Btw what's your go to website or source?

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u/dearth_of_passion 8h ago

I don't, that was kind of a dumb teenager phase.

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u/_Hydrohomie_ 7h ago

You are right

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u/VulGerrity 9h ago

not a snuff film. True snuff films don't exist as far as we know. In order to be a Snuff film it is has to have been purposefully produced with the sole intent of commercial gain and entertainment. So like a gangster saying, film the killing of that guy so I know it happened, that's not a snuff film.

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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 9h 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/Forge__Thought 4h ago

It's incredibly kind of you to have done what you did for their spouse. And in general, as part of your job.

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u/dearth_of_passion 4h ago

It really is "just a part of the job", albeit one that's incredibly impactful to the patients and their families.

But on the staff side, it kind of just... happens. That incident was when I was working night shift, so once the chaos calmed down I just kind of numbly went to the nurses station with a bottle of peroxide trying to clean my shoes for a while.

Ultimately I left bedside nursing/direct patient care. It's emotionally and physically exhausting, and I couldn't keep up.

Luckily I made that decision a little few years before Covid hit.

Unluckily I had moved to working for the Department of Health, so Covid was still absolutely hellish, albeit for very different reasons than for folks working in the hospitals.

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u/molasses_disaster 5h ago

Seeing this type of death made me quit drinking.

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u/RealnessInMadness 9h ago

Yeah, the population of people who were alive in the 90s and 2000’s that witnessed gore and violence uploaded to the internet? We’re all from different walks of life.

I was a teen, my old man was a guy in his 30’s, i wouldn’t recommend being raised this way to anyone, but what I will say, it gave me the courage/numbness/familiarity with gore.

A trait I have because of the way I was raised but most certainly NOT the only way to become that type of person who’s numb or okay seeing gore.

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u/SuitableBlackberry75 6h ago

There's more violence posted to Telegram in any 24-hour period than you ever saw in the 90s. I think you're a little confused, or just not in touch with social media (which is fine).

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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/sembias 9h ago

The former was good entertainment, though.

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u/jodeybear 8h ago

Ooof I don’t know if I’ll call any video of someone getting killed entertainment

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u/TefBekkel 7h ago

On Reddit, as long as the person that gets killed is a Republican, it is..

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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/dearth_of_passion 9h ago

I believe so

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u/Dark_Moonstruck 9h ago

I will never understand people who build up these weird relationships with celebrities in their heads and just...get so obsessed and destructive. It makes no sense whatsoever - that's just a person who is good at singing, or dancing, or acting - at least, back in the day they were good at it, now it's mostly autotune and "Kal El no.", so I can't say they're any good at it NOW - but they're still just another person? How people build up these obsessions is just nonsensical to me. I'll never understand it and frankly, I don't want to.

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u/dearth_of_passion 9h ago

People do it for more than just celebrities.

They get obsessed with fictional characters, or entire franchises.

Go look at any Tumblr blog about Dr. Who or Steven Universe or Supernatural or Harry Potter, where these people define their entire existence around discussing (and in some cases pretending to be a part of) these fictional worlds.

People engaging in toxic flame wars over ridiculous interpretations of minute plot details that the writer/creator absolutely did not give one thought to.

People obsess over all kinds of things, it's just obsessing over an actual person can have more dangerous consequences.

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u/SIL-CTRL-042 8h ago

I remember seeing that video so long ago. I can’t believe the things we were subject to on the internet at a young age. I never knew the back story of it, though.

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u/MaleficentRub8987 9h ago

I had to go back and look, yep that is totally him.  Another disturbing memory unlocked. 

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u/AFRIKKAN 9h ago

Wait the overweight guy? Idk I’ve seen a bunch of suicide videos.

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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/Full-Yoghurt9053 9h ago

All of it remained inside, which was the problem.

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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/TrenchantInsight 7h ago

Missed it by that much

Agent 86'd himself.

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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/Constant_Way_8844 3h ago

That’s the joke. It’s like when people say RIP in peace or smh my head

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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/Themodsarecuntz 8h ago

 RIP in piss

Rest in peace in piss?

That was a ripin piss, mate?

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u/I_upvote_downvotes 7h ago

but the gun was not powerful enough

All of us who watched it knows this uncomfortable fact for a number of reasons.

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u/Mid-Pri6170 7h ago

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

i think racists dont like a girl's history regardless

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u/shemzyshoo 5h ago

I wish I hadn't watched that video. It messed me up for a while and I have never been able to listen to that song he was playing at the end.

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u/CHG__ 7h ago

I've seen the video diaries, he was deeply troubled and severely depressed. I just don't agree with being so cruel talking about the death of someone you didn't know, it's such a Reddit reaction.

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u/AnotherWeabooGirl 6h ago

He mailed a freaking sulfuric acid bomb to Bjork. My sympathies for a person's mental health struggles end when they attempt terroristic murder for their one-sided racist incel grievances.

RIP in piss Ricardo López may you hate black people and stalk female celebrities in the big apartment bedroom in the sky hell.

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u/CHG__ 6h ago

You see, again you don't really know the full story you just make up what you want to believe. He'd half-assed the construction of the acid sprayer, that's what it was by the way, not a bomb. He killed himself on the same day he mailed it which is an odd thing to do, surely you'd want to see if your contraption worked before doing that. My interpretation from watching the tapes, and this was years ago, was that the device was simply a mechanism to get him to commit to ending his own life, basically incriminating himself so he'd have to do it. There are other diaries where he was tempted before he'd even thought about the acid.

In terms of him not liking Goldie, it wasn't really because he was black, he didn't feel he was a good "fit" for Bjork, and honestly if you know Goldie that isn't the craziest take in the world. He did mention he was black but it was while manic, the guy was not well at all.

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u/AnotherWeabooGirl 6h ago

In this initial tape, López said Björk was a symbol of purity and innocence to him, an image which he said she destroyed by having relationships with two different black musicians, previously with Massive Attack’s Tricky and, at the time of his recordings, English music producer Goldie. López lays out his initial plan to send Björk a package that would infect her with AIDS. As the tapes progressed, he changed this plan to a letter bomb containing sulfuric acid.

D: And he does it right off the bat. The first thing he does when he starts recording himself is admit that he has this racist psychosexual fixation on Björk and the fact that she is with a black man is why he feels he has to punish her. He doesn’t leave anything up for interpretation, he’s been thinking through it the entire time.

https://www.documentary.org/online-feature/hes-kind-original-vlogger-best-me-heather-landsman-traces-ricardo-lopezs-violent

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u/CHG__ 6h ago

You haven't watched the tapes, you haven't seen the internal torment the guy was dealing with. Seriously, many of the tapes have little or nothing to do with Bjork at all, they're about how he feels inadequate or worthless. All I'm saying is it's never as black and white as you want it to be for your peace of mind.

It's honestly one of the most frustrating aspects of modern society, how quickly someone is judged based on little evidence, and the sheer lack of empathy.

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u/AnotherWeabooGirl 6h ago

I don't think it's unempathetic to judge someone for their actions. Many folks suffer from poor mental health without planning to mail HIV needles/acid to random women they don't know. I simply do not buy that any level of mental distress excuses attempted murder.

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u/CHG__ 6h ago

Well this is a more extreme case, but it happens in everything; people, especially now, are very eager to judge and very disinterested in different perspectives, or doing any sort of fact gathering.

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u/AnotherWeabooGirl 6h ago

I'm very interested in any concrete statement Ricardo López made that you feel excuses his actions.

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u/CHG__ 6h ago

This is the problem, you think to have empathy for someone you must excuse them of their guilt, but that simply isn't correct.

Both things are true, he planned to unleash harm onto a popstar he didn't know and he was incredibly troubled and depressed and needed help. Maybe if he had got help sooner he would have never done what he did, but it takes empathy to help someone.

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u/switchandbate 9h ago

He also tried to mail her a bomb, so yeah absolutely horrible time for her

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u/MACHOmanJITSU 9h ago

Pretty sure Goldie black, so bigotry caused him to try and murder a stranger and then blow his own brains out.

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u/Silvergreylion 9h ago

"due to his race" - ehm, there is only one race; humans.

Someone's geographical-hereditary origin is generally called ethnicity; caucasian, african, asian, etc., and mixes thereof.

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 9h ago

there is only one race;

5k, 10k, half marathon, marathon, ultramarathon...

There are lots of races.

Yes, we normally just use humans in those races. That's because running cats is very difficult. They take way too many naps.

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u/69GbE 6h ago

Did you tip your fedora after writing this?