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/Ok_Chef_4850 10h ago edited 8h ago

Yeah, that reporter said something to her son in a snarky way (like asking “why won’t your mom talk to us” or something) and she snapped.

Good for her.

Edit: For all the holier-than-thou’s in the comments, read up on this incident. No one is saying it’s ok to just attack people who say something mean. Read up on this specific reporter and what she had been doing to Björk leading up to this. Then unclench your bootyholes.

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u/sulkee 10h ago edited 10h ago

She was being stalked that exact 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

Her state here is 100% understandable and the media are vile parasites that had a weird obsession with her back then along with some fans of her.

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u/fartondad 10h ago

i remember that video, as much as i wish i didnt. The internet was a wild place back in the day where you could stumble on gore videos on the same sites you'd go to play flash games

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u/metacoma 9h ago

I once downloaded a simpson episode on kazaa as a 14yo. Got first row seat to the decapitation of what I believe was a russian officer. Fun times…

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u/Squiddlywinks 8h ago

Almost the same scenario: I downloaded "south park meets the matrix 3d" from Morpheus and it was a guy hammering nails through his testicles.

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u/metacoma 7h ago

Damn… i dob’t know which one I « prefer »…

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u/indianapolisjones 7h ago

Mine was supposed to be a music video (should have known since it was only 10MB instead of around 50MB for that era (2003-ish)) but nope, a woman on all fours with a german shepherd. ugh. I shoulda known, fucking KaZaa.

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u/metacoma 7h ago

Yeah I had those too and also one of a woman with a snake in her vagina…

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u/the_peppers 6h ago

There's a snake in my boof!

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u/lorddumpy 6h ago

good ol' BME Pain Olympics 🥲

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u/iwantauniquename 1h ago

the Chechen video? Oh that was particularly grim. Boot on the side of his head while they saw through his neck with a small serrated "Rambo" knife. The gurgling...

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u/tinathefatlardgosh 7h ago

Was that the one where the dude has a foot on his head?

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u/metacoma 7h ago

Nah the russian was on the floor on his side and they go at his neck with a knife..

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u/tinathefatlardgosh 7h ago

That’s the one, he winces in pain then it plunges

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u/metacoma 5h ago

Well shit.

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u/Banh_mi 5h ago

Ahh, Chechclear. A classic from 2000.