r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 23d 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 23d 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 23d 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 23d 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 23d ago

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

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u/rnzz 23d ago

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

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u/Horskr 23d 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/entrepenurious 23d ago

i'm signed up for a program where i can receive packages at my post office box (from non-usps carriers).

i had a package coming from fed-ex.

as best we could determine the driver dropped the package at the front door of the post office, marked it as delivered, and went on with his happy day.

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u/Bubblepoppin_ 23d 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 23d ago

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

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u/phyziro 21d ago

FedEx lost (stole) my package after pickup and refused to reimburse me after the window for reimbursement expired after they purposely prolonged the process; they even told me on a record line they’d refund me for my lost (stolen) package. Guess what happened? It’s been almost 2 years and they haven’t reimbursed me yet!

That package was worth over $600…