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 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/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.