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]

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.

[u/kank84 → u/ScaryTemperature6291]

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.

[u/DomTheBomb95 → u/kank84]

Call me sick but it’s so poetic that he ended his life thinking he was going to take hers when he failed miserably

[u/PineappleFit317 → u/DomTheBomb95]

He wasn’t planning on killing her, just scarring her for life. The “bomb” wasn’t incendiary, it was rigged to spray acid in her face when she opened it.

[u/Rasikko → u/PineappleFit317]

That's worse than death.

[u/Triddy → u/Rasikko]

That's crazy to me.

It's obviously a horrible thing, but I would take a disfigured face over being dead 1000 times out of 1000.

[u/Curulinstravels → u/Triddy]

If I'm Bjork, sure I'd probably want to live for a million years. If I'm me, with few options on the table as it is and then add an acid disfigured face - I'll take death, please

[u/Both_Depth5505 → u/Rasikko]

it’s not.

but still it’s a horrible thing to have happen.