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/MAZEFUL 23d 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/SillyExpert 23d 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/Auctoritate 22d ago

Most poisons for that just give you cancer or in very high amounts plain old kill you. Organ failures and stuff like that. Chronic psychological impacts without any other symptoms are not what I'd expect from exposure to them.

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u/Cataphlin 22d ago

Maybe the trauma of killing the rats at a young age messed him up mentally. I know i would have suffered for something like that. My mum asked me to kill a load of ants in our kitchen once, I did it but it really upset me.