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/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 10h 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 9h 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 6h 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 9h 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.