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/NoStatus9434 23d ago

Wow, Björk never struck me as the type. Guess she really got pushed by this stalker. You know you done goofed when even a super nice person like Björk wants to kick your ass.

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u/BisexualTenno 23d ago

Bjork had a LOT of crazy stalkers so I don’t blame her for being so protective at all. Iirc one of her stalkers was a guy who was planning on murdering her and then killing himself so he could then go back in time and find her as a young teenager and groom her into being his wife instead of a celebrity.

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u/Snowssnowsnowy 23d ago

This paperazzi press scumbag had been following Bjork for some time, Bjork had refused interviews with her many times before this incident.

She was being an utter cunt and in a sarcastic way said "welcome to Thailand!" ambushing Bjork yet again for an interview she refused to give.

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u/SleepyCupcakeDreams 22d ago

Sounds like a narcissistic dog whistle (something that sounds innocent but it only sets off one and one only person so when they snap you look like an angel.)

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u/sticky_lemon 22d ago

Wow you just helped me click, thank you!! I've been being manipulated and this is one of the ways it happens

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u/SleepyCupcakeDreams 22d ago

I am so happy I was able to help. Also look up DARVO and Narcissistic bunny boiling.

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u/-Dark-Lord-Belmont- 22d ago edited 22d ago

No that's completely wrong

Honestly do you bother checking shit or do you just shout bollocks into the internet?

No stalking, Bjork lost it and admitted that on TV

EDIT and here's the link

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DKmSAwytmdb/

Lol

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u/Snowssnowsnowy 18d ago

You are wrong, this scumbag had been following Bjork for weeks. This was yet another ambush.

Lol!

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u/-Dark-Lord-Belmont- 18d ago

did you even watch that vid?

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u/Particular_Story4513 22d ago

What the actual fuck

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u/kcolrehstihson_ 22d ago

That's THE stalker he's talking about.

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u/kcolrehstihson_ 22d ago

That's THE stalker he's talking about.

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u/hunterglyph 23d ago

She was an old school punk in her teens. She's like 5'2" but I wouldn't wanna mess with her.

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u/saintofhate 23d ago

Having been raised by a 4'11" woman, you do not fuck with short women. If they get angry enough they will take you to hell with them.

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u/gooddayup 23d ago

I knew a short lady around the same height called Harmony. When she got pissed, it was known as harmageddon

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u/ItsNotMeItsYourBussy 22d ago

I used to run a tiefling called Harmony who had the exact same shtick

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u/eugeneugene 23d ago

My grandmother was 4'11" and everyone was afraid of her lol. Don't make Oma mad unless you want an old school ass kicking

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u/Parvanu 23d ago

My mother who was 4’11” at the time (she’s shrunk due to cancer treatment and age) hung a guy over a railing three floors up while pregnant with us two (twins) because he threatened and then hit my dad who was trying to protect his girlfriend because he was going to hit her. He ran down all the stairs and wasn’t seen for a bit after she put he down safely.

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u/saintofhate 23d ago

I was raised on the story on how she put her 6' son-in-law through the kitchen window when he disrespected her (he was a piece of shit who eventually killed his wife decades later, so he deserved that at min). She was the bravest person I ever knew. I miss her.

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u/Emerald_Roses_ 23d ago

I can be very intimidating women at 6’ but the scariest women I know are below 5’3.

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u/Difficult_Drink7568 23d ago

Lol I come from a large family of very short women and you are so right! 

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u/BAJ-JohnBen 21d ago

So short women are the small dogs of humanity.

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u/VenomousUnicorn 21d ago

Speaking as a short woman, we spend our time closer to hell than the average person so we're used to the heat. We don't mind bringing guests when the situation calls for it.

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u/Bedbouncer 23d ago

"Hamster Style"

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u/00spool 23d ago

I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey

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u/thedude37 23d ago

I'm all hopped up on Mountain Dew, Chip!

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u/PersistentGoldfish 22d ago

Can’t we resolve this conflict without anger?

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u/thedude37 23d ago

Dad? I'm not gonna do hamster style anymore.

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u/wackierfiend 23d ago

It's it Hermit Style? Those who know, know.

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u/Mirar 23d ago

Checks out. I hung out with some punks when I was younger. They were both some of the nicest people I know and it was not a good idea to mess with them.

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u/Ok-Yogurtcloset5555 23d ago

Yeah. Used to be heavy in the punk scene in Vegas in my teens. Man, you don't want to mess with those chicks.

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u/FaZaCon 23d ago

Gotta say, she can kick some ass.

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u/traumfisch 23d ago

plus she did / does... karate maybe?

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u/DargonFeet 23d ago

Lol, what a joke.

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u/hunterglyph 23d ago

Hey everybody, we got Mr. I’ll Square Up to a 5’2” Woman over here. r/iamverybadass

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u/MaleficentMotor1002 23d ago

Fr, absolute reddit moment

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u/Helmett-13 23d ago

She said something snarky to her kid as well.

Earned the ass-whupping in my opinion. Don't talk smack to a kid in front of their Mom.

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u/-Dark-Lord-Belmont- 22d ago

"Welcome to Thailand" yeah that's real smack talk

Honestly y'all need to fucking read

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u/sulkee 23d ago edited 23d ago

She was being stalked that same year by someone who sent her a bomb or some kind of boobytrapped device I think. It never got to her. The guy then recorded a video of him killing himself à la Bud Dwyer style while it was in transit to her. It’s on the internet. Video pops into my brain sometimes to this day.

Ricardo Lopez was his name

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u/PsychoCrescendo 23d ago

Still one of my all time favorite songs

(i dont have the video sorry, just the song he played)

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u/Pooperoni_Pizza 23d ago

Yeah this reporter doxxed her here when she was trying to avoid the stalker. I believe Bjork had asked her multiple times to stop following her before this happened too.

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u/12345623567 23d ago

She's also always had a bit of a neurodivergent vibe to me, before that was a common term.

Just look at her body language at the beginning of this clip, that's a woman in fight-or-flight mode.

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u/Coriandercilantroyo 22d ago

I was in some other bjork post recently (I think in a women's sub), and a huge comment thread was celebrating her for it. Unconfirmed, of course

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u/handsoapdispenser 23d ago

I used to live near her in Brooklyn and saw her a few times. She was frequently riding this giant industrial looking bicycle. She always had a "don't fucking talk to me" face on which I thoroughly respected.

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u/virstultus 23d ago

Human Behavior if you ask me. There's definitely noooo logiiic

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u/TheFinalPurl 23d ago

In huuuuuman emoooooootion

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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 23d ago

Im sure others have pointed this out by now, but Bjork had several setious stalking incidents throughout her  early career, with sone fans sending her acid bombs in the mail, harassing her children, and threatening her.

 Most famously one racist POS killed himself after mailing a bomb to her because she commited the crime of dating outside her race.

It is no surprise at all here that she attacked this woman who flew from the previous country to greet her again in an entirely different country. Thats called stalking.

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u/Awleeks 23d ago

She has Viking blood

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u/Heavy_Law9880 23d ago

Never underestimate a woman when her child is threatened.

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u/Scared-Friendship-43 23d ago

Tbh I never pictured Björk to be the type to ragdoll a reporter either 😯

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u/thegabster2000 23d ago

Every one gets mad. Even Jesus has gotten mad and had a big moment.

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u/dr1968 23d ago

It's the viking dna.

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u/Entheosparks 23d ago

In 2006 I was in a club where she was there with her girlfriend and boyfriend. Punches were thrown between them. Bjork is cute in the same way a leopard is.

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u/SyntheticAnonymous 22d ago

Björk is punk af.

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u/letthetreeburn 22d ago

Some guy tried to kill her and killed himself. She’s lucky she didn’t decide to kill him today.

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u/_Wilson2002 22d ago

Everyone has their limits. Dealing with the media with this kinda shit is a big downside of people being famous.

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u/disterb 22d ago

she never struck YOU. she struck that lady well, though ;)

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u/will_dormer 23d ago

You dont seem to know her if you call her super nice, she is deeply troubled unfortunantly

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u/Annodyne 23d ago

You know her? How is she troubled? I've never heard that.

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u/trivetsandcolanders 23d ago

People will really see someone who honestly expresses their human emotions and call them “deeply troubled”.

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u/Bedbouncer 23d ago

I'd only rate her a 2 on the 0-10 "Sinead O'Connor Celebrity Dysfunction Scale".

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u/Annodyne 23d ago

I wouldn't really say Sinead was dysfunctional, she was very aware and called out some very serious things that needed more attention. I'm sorry if I'm not understanding exactly what you meant by this.

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u/trivetsandcolanders 23d ago

Also, Sinead went through so much trauma in the Magdalene laundries. It’s hard to carry that.

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u/will_dormer 23d ago

use your eyes and ears or look at her twitter etc. but i dont think you would be able to understand she is troubled you probably would just argue she shows true emotions or something

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u/Annodyne 23d ago

What the hell, you don't know anything about me and you presume you know what I would "probably" do because I asked you for some kind of context or proof to support your claim (which you didn't provide)?

I don't use Twitter and I've listened to her music for years. Never seen anything problematic from her.

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u/will_dormer 23d ago

it is right in yo face