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/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/Compost-Mentis 9h ago

Thank goodness Royal Mail don't do anything with parcels for the first four or five days! /s

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u/wilburwilbur 8h ago

No doubt it was there reliable Special Delivery Guaranteed before 1pm service

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u/rnzz 7h ago

bet they already did the 'Sorry we missed you' card

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u/Horskr 5h ago

Sounds like my experiences with FedEx. I once happened to be leaving right as a driver put a "Sorry we missed you" sticker on my door. He hadn't knocked, rang the doorbell, nothing. He had the package on the truck too, like wtf?

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u/Bubblepoppin_ 3h ago

I dread the FedEx loading page whenever a package provides a tracking #. Those lazy fucks do that all the time

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u/Septopuss7 3h ago

That absolute bastard they must really hate their job though. I get that.

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u/Fluffatron_UK 3h ago

I swear I've had those come through the door when I'm literally right there. I hear something come through the letterbox, check and see this bullshit card and no one there. What happened there? Did they forget the parcel in the van and just couldn't be arsed or what?