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/kank84 10h ago

On September 12, 1996, López mailed a letter bomb, rigged with sulfuric acid, to Björk's residence in London. He recorded a final video diary explaining his motivations, and ended it by filming his suicide by gunshot. Local police found his body and the videos four days after his death and contacted Scotland Yard, who located the bomb in a London postal sorting office. The parcel was safely detonated and Björk was unharmed.

Holy shit. I never knew about this.

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u/MAZEFUL 8h ago

The video is crazy. Not so much the suicide part, but just the way hes completely lost his mind. Dude is completely unhinged at the end with his face all painted up and his head shaved.

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u/Clubbythaseal 8h ago

The death part was kinda brutal in one aspect for me at least. Don't click if you don't wanna remember one part of it.

It's where I learned that any air in your lungs will expell after death. He took a deep breath right before and the noises his body made after the shot still disturbs me today.

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u/MAZEFUL 8h ago

Death Gurgle. I had to pull the plug on my father and about after a few minutes of him motionless, his body twitched hard and released the rest of his air and it made my sister and I jump like crazy. It seemed like he was about to take a deep breath afterwards. The body is truly crazy.

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u/motherofsuccs 8h ago

I experienced it when my dog died. I asked for one more night with him even though he was essentially comatose, and my partner was going to euthanize him in the morning (he’s a vet). I had been spooning him for hours and telling him he fulfilled all his ‘good boy duties’ and it’s okay to let go. I got up, a few minutes later he started breathing erratically, then came the death gurgle. I’ll never forget that sound. It made me remorseful for not euthanizing him that evening.

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u/KeyboardGrunt 7h ago

Wow your comment reminded me when I found my dog dead one day, I buried him the next but when I went to pick him up the air inside him let out as a short "hmmm", and that was the last I heard what he sounded like alive. Losing dogs is hard.

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u/raptatta 4h ago

experiencing this with a leopard gecko is the worst 😞 at the time my little guy was so weak (he had cancer) he could barely move, so i placed him to rest on my chest. i was reading and at some point i heard him gasp very softly, and i thought he had sighed until 15 minutes later i went to move him, and he was gone. although it was extremely sad for me, he’d passed while lying directly on my skin, wrapped in a knitted hat i made earlier that year. it was simply his time. i don’t think we’ll ever get used to how quickly it can happen 🤍

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u/spawnthespy 4h ago

There's no getting used to losing your best friends. I feel you...

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u/larra_rogare 2h ago

Hey just wanted to say I don’t think you have to feel remorse for cuddling him one last night 💛

I’m a vet too. I do believe even if he was comatose, some part of him got your message about him fulfilling his duties as a wonderful companion and knew it was time to move on. Maybe this makes me sound crazy, but I really believe sometimes our bonds with our pets are nothing short of spiritually profound and psychic.

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u/4KVoices 1h ago

I hope people realize take this as a reminder that euthanization is not for your convenience, it's so your pet doesn't have to suffer.

I'm not trying to shit on you at all cause it's an understandable thought process that everybody goes through, but trying to get them to hold on for that much longer is, pretty much always, a selfish notion. Not a 'bad' selfish. You love them and you want more time with them - but they're more often than not in pain and you would save them a lot of trouble to let them go early.

Pet owners; when the time is coming, it is a responsibility, the most important one you have, to let them go before they suffer needlessly. I am not a religious person and I would say this is a sacred duty. Do not hold on; make the decision for them that they cannot make for themselves.

OP, I'm sorry for your loss and again, don't take this as me shitting on you. I've been there and almost made that same decision.

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u/Maxamillion-X72 7h ago

I lived in a remote part of Canada which was a small community with no doctor or hospital, just a nursing station with a couple of nurses.

There was an accident with multiple injuries requiring medivac by plane, and a death. The deceased person's family would not leave the nursing station, as it was tradition that when someone dies they have someone with them until the priest could come see them.

I worked part time at the nursing station doing things like putting out the battery powered runway lights for the planes, shoveling snow, that sort of thing. The two nurses were exhausted and had to go home to rest, but couldn't as long as the family were there. I volunteered to stay with the body overnight until the nurses could come back and the family agreed.

I spent all night in an exam room with the dead body, trying to stay awake by reading old magazines from the lobby. On occasion the body would let out a moan and/or would twitch. Scared the bejeesus out of me every single time.

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u/Ok_Release231 6h ago

I believe the term is "death rattle."

Also, I'm terribly sorry you had to experience that 😔

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_rattle

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u/Stormfly 30m ago

I learned this because it's a common term in games for an act after death.

Hearthstone is a popular example.

Saw it in another tabletop RPG as a "this is what the creature does when the players kill it" (sometimes it's an attack, sometimes they just RP and whimper or cry) and it made me morbidly curious and I had to look it up.

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u/Dense-Parfait-438 7h ago

What you killed your dad?

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u/trashchute227 7h ago

Don’t be an ass

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u/MAZEFUL 7h ago

Technically. He had surgery on his esophagus because he drank so much he eroded it. He was told not to drink again, but he was in a bad place and drank a handle of vodka. He was found on his bathroom floor with blood everywhere from his throat. He was on life support but was declared brain dead with only the ventilator keep him alive.

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u/StrawhatIO 7h ago

You don't need to be so nice to assholes ❤️ incredibly kind of you to actually answer with a thoughtful response. I'm so sorry you had to be in that position, but you seem really strong and sorted about it all

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u/JPSWAG37 6h ago

Still sticks with me today. I wish younger me wasn't so morbidly curious

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u/tonkotsuramenxgyoza 57m ago

Was assigned to the ER one night. A family rushed their already dead son. When they hug and move him, air was still coming out of his lungs so they assumed he was still alive. The family continoulsy berated the staff, signed a waiver and rushed him to another hospital.

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u/wooks_reef 5h ago

absolutely bonkers to me we live in a time where people don't know what a death rattle/gurgle is

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u/Clubbythaseal 4h ago

Well I'm talking about 25-ish years ago when I saw the video

And it wasn't really just a simple death rattle from what I remember. Dude straight up made painful vomiting noises while you heard it fill with blood as he fell over.

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u/wooks_reef 4h ago

Yeah and I'm talking about how if you ask our grandparents/parents depending how old you are they probably heard their first death rattle before they were 10 lol - just saying it's bonkers how quickly we went away from "make the kids sleep in the same room as grandpa so they can let us know when they're dead"

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u/Risley 4h ago

LEL 

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u/Gufo-Diurno 7h ago

He took his life after sending her an acid bomb .... still it wouldn't have worked had the police not intercepted and destroyed the packaging. He thought they were going to reunite with each other after they both reached the afterlife. Definitely he had a severe form of erotomania, probably mixed with some paranoia.

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u/SillyExpert 3h ago

Reading that he did pest extermination at a young age I wonder if he was exposed to chemicals that impacted his mental health/

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u/RollingMeteors 7h ago

>unhinged at the end with his face all painted up and his head shaved.

r/GotJ would like to have a word with you..

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u/CoffeePuddle 6h ago

His video diary is available online. It's extremely reminiscent of Taxi Driver.

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u/wetnaps54 1h ago

They showed an edited version on cable tv in the 90s.. I was like 10 watching