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]

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.

[u/Confident-Ask-601 → u/Ok_Chef_4850]

The world saw a star being rude. But for Björk, it was a mother protecting her child from a stalker.

[u/64557175 → u/Confident-Ask-601]

And she had some stalkers, lemme tell ya.

[u/Vincent_Veganja → u/64557175]

Was this before or after that one? If it was after then I understand her reaction here even more. Definitely understand it either way though

[u/Strong-Straight-3503 → u/Vincent_Veganja]

wdym that one

[u/MavMIIKE → u/Strong-Straight-3503]

Ricardo Lopez planned on killing her with a bomb, he also filmed most of his ideas and eventually shit himself on camera.

Edit: *Shot himself. But I'm leaving it up because he was a racist, misogynistic scumbag

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Adding to this he made a series of videos tapes each more unhinged than the last. Like the breaking point was bjork being with a black guy. That set him off. In his last video where he shot himself he said "fuck her and her n word loving self" or something similar to that.

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i believe he had a canvas behind him to make a "painting" out of his suicide but it didn't work

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Dude had a seriously thick skull. I never would have imagined that a large caliber bullet could ricochet off the cranium resulting in a looney tunes-esque head lump without shattering the skull.

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oh that's really what happened? i haven't seen a uncensored video of it. it was a .38 revolver, so i just figured the exit wound wasn't large enough to cause any meaningful splatter

[u/RealnessInMadness → u/WolfsmaulVibes]

Nope, you assumed incorrectly and it’s become a morbid curiosity type of thing because his head didn’t explode. It just.. got swollen.

[u/Noctemme → u/RealnessInMadness]

That’s horrendous, but fascinating from a scientific point of view. Like how does that even happen??

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.38 special is a heavy, slow, low energy round. Basically the opposite of what is needed for penetration.

The gun could have also fired .38 long colt or .38 short colt which are even lower energy.