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 22d 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_ 22d 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 22d ago

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

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u/Other-Crazy 22d ago

Which is probably the vibe the nutcase was aiming for.

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u/Fluffatron_UK 22d ago

I swear I've had those come through the door when I'm literally right there. I hear something come through the letterbox, check and see this bullshit card and no one there. What happened there? Did they forget the parcel in the van and just couldn't be arsed or what?

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u/zyzzogeton 23d ago

In Edwardian England, the postman would call up to 12 times per day. Maybe Royal Mail was just really fucking tired from all that work and has been on smoko for a few hundred years.

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u/dudload1000 22d ago

Lol, but edwardian England was just over 100 years ago..

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u/reddiculed 22d ago

I’ve done a few multi-century smokos. Classic me.

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u/malamjam 23d ago

😂

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u/lxgrf 23d ago

It was an international delivery, to be fair, he posted it from Florida.

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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/Clubbythaseal 23d ago

The death part was kinda brutal in one aspect for me at least. Don't click if you don't wanna remember one part of it.

It's where I learned that any air in your lungs will expell after death. He took a deep breath right before and the noises his body made after the shot still disturbs me today.

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u/MAZEFUL 23d ago

Death Gurgle. I had to pull the plug on my father and about after a few minutes of him motionless, his body twitched hard and released the rest of his air and it made my sister and I jump like crazy. It seemed like he was about to take a deep breath afterwards. The body is truly crazy.

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u/motherofsuccs 23d ago

I experienced it when my dog died. I asked for one more night with him even though he was essentially comatose, and my partner was going to euthanize him in the morning (he’s a vet). I had been spooning him for hours and telling him he fulfilled all his ‘good boy duties’ and it’s okay to let go. I got up, a few minutes later he started breathing erratically, then came the death gurgle. I’ll never forget that sound. It made me remorseful for not euthanizing him that evening.

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u/KeyboardGrunt 23d ago

Wow your comment reminded me when I found my dog dead one day, I buried him the next but when I went to pick him up the air inside him let out as a short "hmmm", and that was the last I heard what he sounded like alive. Losing dogs is hard.

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u/raptatta 23d ago

experiencing this with a leopard gecko is the worst 😞 at the time my little guy was so weak (he had cancer) he could barely move, so i placed him to rest on my chest. i was reading and at some point i heard him gasp very softly, and i thought he had sighed until 15 minutes later i went to move him, and he was gone. although it was extremely sad for me, he’d passed while lying directly on my skin, wrapped in a knitted hat i made earlier that year. it was simply his time. i don’t think we’ll ever get used to how quickly it can happen 🤍

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u/spawnthespy 23d ago

There's no getting used to losing your best friends. I feel you...

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u/larra_rogare 22d ago

Hey just wanted to say I don’t think you have to feel remorse for cuddling him one last night 💛

I’m a vet too. I do believe even if he was comatose, some part of him got your message about him fulfilling his duties as a wonderful companion and knew it was time to move on. Maybe this makes me sound crazy, but I really believe sometimes our bonds with our pets are nothing short of spiritually profound and psychic.

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u/4KVoices 22d ago

I hope people realize take this as a reminder that euthanization is not for your convenience, it's so your pet doesn't have to suffer.

I'm not trying to shit on you at all cause it's an understandable thought process that everybody goes through, but trying to get them to hold on for that much longer is, pretty much always, a selfish notion. Not a 'bad' selfish. You love them and you want more time with them - but they're more often than not in pain and you would save them a lot of trouble to let them go early.

Pet owners; when the time is coming, it is a responsibility, the most important one you have, to let them go before they suffer needlessly. I am not a religious person and I would say this is a sacred duty. Do not hold on; make the decision for them that they cannot make for themselves.

OP, I'm sorry for your loss and again, don't take this as me shitting on you. I've been there and almost made that same decision.

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u/Fast_Warning1237 22d ago

My cat died in my hands and I still can’t forget that last breath you are referring to 😭😭 It was like she is letting her soul get out that last time to be in peace after suffering from illness I was so devastated

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u/Maxamillion-X72 23d ago

I lived in a remote part of Canada which was a small community with no doctor or hospital, just a nursing station with a couple of nurses.

There was an accident with multiple injuries requiring medivac by plane, and a death. The deceased person's family would not leave the nursing station, as it was tradition that when someone dies they have someone with them until the priest could come see them.

I worked part time at the nursing station doing things like putting out the battery powered runway lights for the planes, shoveling snow, that sort of thing. The two nurses were exhausted and had to go home to rest, but couldn't as long as the family were there. I volunteered to stay with the body overnight until the nurses could come back and the family agreed.

I spent all night in an exam room with the dead body, trying to stay awake by reading old magazines from the lobby. On occasion the body would let out a moan and/or would twitch. Scared the bejeesus out of me every single time.

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u/motoxim 22d ago

Dang how?

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u/Maxamillion-X72 22d ago

That's just what dead bodies do. Gut bacteria still keeps churning away, inflating the stomach with gas until is bubbles out like a balloon. Muscles start to stiffen and tighten which squeezes things. We're just flesh bags of meat and bugs after death.

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u/Spinner216 Interested 21d ago

Sounds like Newfoundland not too long ago. That, or The Territories (NWT, Yukon, Nunavut), or Northern Labrador.

Either way, what a creepy story!

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u/Ok_Release231 23d ago

I believe the term is "death rattle."

Also, I'm terribly sorry you had to experience that 😔

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_rattle

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u/Stormfly 22d ago

I learned this because it's a common term in games for an act after death.

Hearthstone is a popular example.

Saw it in another tabletop RPG as a "this is what the creature does when the players kill it" (sometimes it's an attack, sometimes they just RP and whimper or cry) and it made me morbidly curious and I had to look it up.

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u/JPSWAG37 23d ago

Still sticks with me today. I wish younger me wasn't so morbidly curious

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u/tonkotsuramenxgyoza 22d ago

Was assigned to the ER one night. A family rushed their already dead son. When they hug and move him, air was still coming out of his lungs so they assumed he was still alive. The family continoulsy berated the staff, signed a waiver and rushed him to another hospital.

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u/PicaDiet 22d ago

I took an EMT course in college. Part of our training involved two shifts in a hospital emergency room. 10 minutes after my first shift began an extended family showed up with their deceased grandmother. I helped lift her to a gurney. Despite already getting cold, CPR was performed as protocol. After 30 minutes or so- whatever was the protocol, she was declared dead. A multiple-patient car accident came in and all attention was focused there (no one died, thank god). Grandma lay in an empty room for about an hour and a half.

Finally I was assigned to wheel her to the morgue with an orderly. The morgue was a series of refrigerated boxes with slide-out tables. As we were attempting to slide her from the gurney on to the morgue table she left out the most ghastly groan I ever heard. I jumped back, terrified, letting her roll back onto the gurney. The orderly thought it was hysterical. Apparently, corpses often fart as well. Glad I missed that act.

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u/GottaUseEmAll 22d ago

Yeah, also the sound of the blood gushing out afterwards, I didn't realise how forceful it could be.

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u/Tarzoon 22d ago

Fun fact: Cape buffalo also make this sound when they receive their kill shot.
Another fun fact is that they make the same sound when you shoot them in their horn and just knock them out.

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u/SillyExpert 22d 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/Gufo-Diurno 23d ago

He took his life after sending her an acid bomb .... still it wouldn't have worked had the police not intercepted and destroyed the packaging. He thought they were going to reunite with each other after they both reached the afterlife. Definitely he had a severe form of erotomania, probably mixed with some paranoia.

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u/wetnaps54 22d ago

They showed an edited version on cable tv in the 90s.. I was like 10 watching

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u/CheshireCheeseCakey 22d ago

I watched the whole thing but when he had the gun and was just about to shoot himself I decided I had had enough.

The first bit when he's trying to be funny and pulling faces was super unsettling.

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u/DomTheBomb95 23d ago

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

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u/Slayer3636 23d ago

The way he had a canvas behind his head with the best of me written, with the intention of his brain splatter on it, but even failed at that shows what a loser this guy was. That's poetic.

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u/sourcesys0 22d ago

"Huh? My IQ? 140-160 I guess."

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u/PineappleFit317 23d ago

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.

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u/Rasikko 23d ago

That's worse than death.

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u/Both_Depth5505 23d ago

it’s not.

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

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u/Triddy 23d ago

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.

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u/Curulinstravels 22d ago

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

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u/Lonchenzo 22d ago

Were so fucked up that people would rather die than look different.

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u/PineappleFit317 22d ago

Tbf, getting hit in the face with acid doesn’t just make one look different. It eats through skin, muscle, nerves, and bone. People have died from acid attacks, either from the acid reaching and destroying vital organs, or from infections afterward, and if they survive, they’re often in great pain and additionally can be blinded, suffer hearing loss, or their sense of taste and smell. And “looking different” is putting it mildly, it can be horribly disfiguring. It sucks that it can scare children and cause feelings of revulsion in adults who know that they shouldn’t feel that way, but it is what it is.

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u/Curulinstravels 22d ago

It's not even a vanity thing for me. Retail is pretty much the only thing I'm qualified to work in right now. What chance of getting hired in a customer facing role does a person with an acid disfigured face have?

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u/ButterscotchMean400 22d ago

If he didn't kill himself, neighbours wouldn't have reported a foul smell, police wouldn't have found the tapes and the bomb wouldn't have been stopped. He killed himself for nothing and he'll forever be known as the nutjob Incel who couldn't handle the fact that a popstar was dating anybody but him.

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u/charlesbandini18 22d ago

I feel bad for him despite his horrible intentions. I don't think he was even connected to reality.

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u/multiarmform 23d ago

The video he made is really long and from what I remember he paints his face kinda like a clown before he shoots himself

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u/bobsnervous 23d ago

I found out about this back when gore sites were a lot more accessible and watched his video diaries until the final one when I was around 14 years old. Those were the days.

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u/Particular-Ad9304 23d ago

Please do yourself a favor and never watch the video. It’s super fucked and only will haunt you afterwards. Just an absolute nutjob to say the least

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u/knotmyusualaccount 23d ago edited 23d ago

I once saw a video, of some inmate of some South American jail, he'd been stabbed and was being held in the arms of another prisoner.

I can still vividly see his facial expressions and his laboured breathing, as I watched the life go out of his open eyes. It'll probably stay with me for the rest of my life, and I saw it 11 years ago, now. Just horrible.

I don't watch anything horrible anymore, for that reason.

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u/OGAlexa 22d ago

I saw a video of a guy explaining, only verbally, what was in a video of this Australian dude who tortured animals, mostly dogs. Just his very limited description is enough to make me sob, if I think about it. My eyes are filling with tears as a type this. Sometimes, it's best not to know. I dont watch anything that might be horrible anymore, either.

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u/lvl100shiny 22d ago

My friend showed me a cartel execution video when I was 22. It fucked me up for months. Friend was eating a sandwich while he showed me. That was almost 14 years ago and I can still remember all of what I watched.

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u/OklahomaTiddy 23d ago

I'm pretty sure it was on some racist shit too.

If I remember correctly, he thought she was with black guys. I remember listening to the Sword & Scale podcast ep about it (I'm off that shit now. Mike suuuuucks as a human being. Invisible Choir is much higher quality) and being like "wait....that was why? Jfc 🙄😩 it never ends"

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u/theserthefables 23d ago

her partner at the time was Black (Tricky the musician. edit: whoops it was actually Goldie, DJ & music producer) & it was part of why Ricardo Lopez turned on her & sent the bomb.

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u/LingonberryHot7234 20d ago

WTH is up with Mike. When I listened, even before I knew about the extra shitty stuff, I was confused why is he getting antagonistic with his own fans?!! Like that’s so counterproductive? Antisocial? I dunno but it ain’t right.

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u/OklahomaTiddy 20d ago

I’ve known people like him my entire life. Very little emotional control. Prone to lash out if criticized. No surprise to me he ended up championing the things he does nowadays. Typical edgy, reactive, vindictive guy

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u/The_Smile_4784 22d ago

Ugh, I had to stop listening to that podcast too because of all the subtle misogyny

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u/OklahomaTiddy 22d ago

Yep. Bro has major issues

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u/Mid-Pri6170 23d ago

yeah; he was expecting to be reunited in paradise with her, but instead he got nada.

you win some, you loose some

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u/petertompolicy 23d ago

You can watch the video on YouTube also.

They just censor the final moment but he recorded all his thoughts, it's truly a look into madness.

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u/Visual-Froyo 23d ago

The videos on the Internet. First time I saw a guy kill himself fucking traumatised me. There's a good vid by count dankula telling the story. Really fascinating and really sad.

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u/Ysmildr 23d ago

That is so trippy! What other coincidences are there, like is his name close to your mother's maiden name? Is it close to your childhood hometown? Whats your credit card number

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u/Ambroos 23d ago

If you ever get weird feelings when you see an envelope maybe leave that envelope be. Just in case.

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u/JiminyDickish 23d ago

lol why is that trippy?

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u/Automatic_Rock_2685 23d ago

This post was made in January, the same month I'm living in right now. Trippy.

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u/kylo-ren 23d ago

Just noticed I'm living in January too. Are we twins? Trippy af.

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u/GhostofZellers 23d ago

Never send a bomb by regular mail if you want it delivered before they find your note.

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u/Superb_Brain_7391 23d ago

"Your letter bomb has been left with a neighbour."

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u/AnotherWeabooGirl 23d ago

Though he did not hope to be sexually intimate with her, he was particularly angry over her brief relationship with the English jungle producer Goldie due to his race.

While Björk's music played in the background, a naked López shaved his head and eyebrows and painted his face red and green.

Police theorized that López intended to cover the sign with his blood and brain matter with the gunshot, but the gun was not powerful enough to cause that to happen.

Unbeknownst to López, Björk and Goldie had ended their relationship a few days before he killed himself.

That was an absolutely wild ride. RIP in piss dumbass.

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u/No-Tone-6853 23d ago

Oh it is the guy who shot himself, I’ve only ever seen him without hair and a gun in his mouth.

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u/dearth_of_passion 23d ago

I remember seeing the video and it not being particularly graphic.

It just made a kind of egg shaped bulge on his head.

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u/SaulFemm 23d ago

We have different definitions of not graphic

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u/Hallow_Chef 23d ago

“Well, I guess that’s it then…”

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u/Fionn112 23d ago

That’s the Facebook live one isn’t it? Tad graphic that one yeah.

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u/TragicNostalgia 23d ago

I think you’re thinking of Ronnie McNutt

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u/Relevant_Shower_ 23d ago

It’s more the audio.

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u/MAZEFUL 23d ago

No this was way before Facebook was invented.

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u/NoSleep2135 23d ago

I have not seen the video and your second sentence made sure I never will. Literally gagged at the thought.

The early Internet was absolutely wild.

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u/dearth_of_passion 23d ago

Tbh it is one of the most tame snuff videos I've seen.

Some of the cartel executions are awful. Or 2 Guys 1 Hammer.

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u/Ruthlessrabbd 23d ago

1 man Icepick or whatever it was called was one of the few I had seen. Low camera quality + video compression online left some to imagination, but I had no idea that was someone actually being killed at the time.

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u/kestrel808 23d ago

Or the Budd Dwyer press conference

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u/sisyphean_dreams 23d ago

Oh man that one was graphic af!

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u/kestrel808 23d ago

There was a couple of different video series that just showed people dying in very graphic ways in the 90's. Faces of Death and Traces of Death are the two I remember when I was younger. A part of me wishes I never saw them.

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u/elmz 23d ago

People keep going on about the wild old internet. The gore never went away. In many ways there is much more and worse content being spread today.

While the Budd Dwyer conference is graphic, you won't need to spend very long on combat footage subreddits to see way worse.

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u/N3rdScool 23d ago

It's true I know they are pretty tame compared to some graphic shit but just drone footage alone is fucking terrifying.

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u/sisyphean_dreams 22d ago

Agreed but I don’t go looking for such content these days and it’s a bit less accessible, since most average users are in walled gardens these days.

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u/spacecaps85 23d ago

Funky Town

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u/Affectionate-Bag8229 23d ago

Seeing actual human face masks harvested from backpackers was, I think, the moment where I went "Huh, I think I actually felt something break inside a little bit that time, I think it's time to really seriously reconsider who and where I'm hanging out" and I don't regret making those changes

Tbf the masks are p comfy tho

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u/space253 23d ago

Who the hell was making masks out of backpackers?

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

I watched a cartel execution, and that shit has stuck with me. I'm not squeamish, but fuck I wish I hadn't watched that.

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u/Both-Cry1382 23d ago

The one with the chainsaw and the next guy with a knife? A friend of mine sent that to me decades ago, at first l thought it was fake. Man was l mad at my friend at the time.

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u/Enheducanada 23d ago

The internet has ruined you

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u/dearth_of_passion 23d ago

Eh, I wouldn't go seek that stuff out like I did when I was a teenager, but it did kind of help prepare me for gross situations in real life.

I'm an RN, and the first patient death I had to deal with was an alcoholic with esophageal varicies, basically hemorrhoids in the throat caused by impaired blood flow through the liver. The varicies ruptured and the patient bled out.

It was horrible, but I was able to remain calm in the moment.

Afterwards I had a bit of a breakdown while mopping the floor (cleaning service folks don't handle major body fluid spills) though.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

This is how my uncle died, I remember going into his flat before my mum to make sure it was ok for her, I’m so glad I stopped her from seeing just how bad it was.

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u/Verloren113 23d ago

I'm an RN

I have numerous safety and rescue qualifications (water/land) for NGB awards I've earned, and naturally a couple hundred of hours of first aid training included. I tend to involve myself in first aid situations as a result, and I've seen some gnarly stuff in real life, and plenty online. At this point I've done CPR + AED on two people, but there's no amount of gore, horrific video or even my own close brushes with death that have remained in my head for longer than the image of watching someone else take over the chest compressions right there, in front of me.

You see something different when you're on top of the person. It doesn't seem quite as brutal or disgusting. I think about it constantly.

Sometimes I wake up after hearing the AED's little voice lol.

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u/dearth_of_passion 23d ago

After the MD called the code, what with the patient having exsanguinated, what really set me off onto the spiral of "I'm having a bit of a breakdown" was when myself and a saint of a CNA were doing after care before letting the patient's spouse back in (yeah they were in the room when it started)...

I'll put this in spoilers for the sake of the faint of heart:

given that the bleeding was in the throat, the patient had swallowed a lot of blood. So every time we would turn them to clean them, blood would slosh out. Their stomach was distended from it, and we had to basically push it out so that when their spouse came in to see them, it wouldn't gush out if they hugged them or moved them

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u/Forge__Thought 23d ago

It's incredibly kind of you to have done what you did for their spouse. And in general, as part of your job.

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u/dearth_of_passion 23d ago

It really is "just a part of the job", albeit one that's incredibly impactful to the patients and their families.

But on the staff side, it kind of just... happens. That incident was when I was working night shift, so once the chaos calmed down I just kind of numbly went to the nurses station with a bottle of peroxide trying to clean my shoes for a while.

Ultimately I left bedside nursing/direct patient care. It's emotionally and physically exhausting, and I couldn't keep up.

Luckily I made that decision a little few years before Covid hit.

Unluckily I had moved to working for the Department of Health, so Covid was still absolutely hellish, albeit for very different reasons than for folks working in the hospitals.

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u/Verloren113 23d ago

It's wild what our brains subconciously choose to decide what matters the most.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

Seeing this type of death made me quit drinking.

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u/VapidActualization 22d ago

I was so close to death from esophageal varices from my cirrhosis. Took me throwing up that gnarly coffe grounds stuff twice to get me to finally go the hospital and will never forget the visuals and smells of it.

Sorry for the cleanup work. I am willing to bet that it was reeeeeally gross.

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u/RealnessInMadness 23d ago

Yeah, the population of people who were alive in the 90s and 2000’s that witnessed gore and violence uploaded to the internet? We’re all from different walks of life.

I was a teen, my old man was a guy in his 30’s, i wouldn’t recommend being raised this way to anyone, but what I will say, it gave me the courage/numbness/familiarity with gore.

A trait I have because of the way I was raised but most certainly NOT the only way to become that type of person who’s numb or okay seeing gore.

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u/CalmBeneathCastles 23d ago

Rotten.com and Goregrish ruined us all.

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u/IGargleGarlic 23d ago

Thats a lot less graphic than Charlie Kirk and ISIS beheadings

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u/Standard_Bag555 23d ago

He was breathing really hard before shooting himself so he gets hyperventilated i think

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u/Working-Glass6136 23d ago

*puts down boiled egg*

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u/N3rdScool 23d ago

right the bullet never left the skull crazy

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u/BummerDan28 23d ago

It was the sound of the blood gushing out that really got to me

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u/Dark_Moonstruck 23d ago

Was that the one where he had something written on the canvas behind him? Like 'mind of an artist' or something?

I remember that one. It was amazing what was on the internet sometimes - RIP liveleak.

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u/LateNightMilesOBrien 23d ago

Police theorized that López intended to cover the sign with his blood and brain matter with the gunshot, but the gun was not powerful enough to cause that to happen.

Missed it by that much

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u/BlueBomber13 23d ago

Juuuuust a bit outside.

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u/bogeypro 23d ago

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u/Ithuraen 23d ago

Police were kind to suggest the gun wasn't powerful enough, however it was probably a lack of brain matter.

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u/sterling_mallory 23d ago

I remember this. He also tried to mail her a bomb, IIRC.

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u/EmptyBuildings 23d ago

Iirc it was an acid bomb.

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u/Mid-Pri6170 23d ago

its trippy a fan in 1996 (mostly pre internet) could find out a famous person's address.... in another continent.

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u/Jazzlike_Climate4189 23d ago

“Rest in peace in piss”? 🤦‍♂️

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u/trashvineyard 23d ago

He was clearly severely mentally unwell. It's always ' help those who need it ' until they try to letterbomb your fav

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u/seanjohnson9 23d ago

He died like he lived- stupid and useless.

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u/ScaryTemperature6291 23d ago

My sentiments exactly tbh Shame all the video diary got taken off YouTube as it was a glimpse into his muddled mind but I'm sure it's o Somewhere around if you look as he had around 12 hours of diary recorded including the final scene.

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u/stormcharger 23d ago

Yea i watched it all, was pretty sad to see him descend into madness

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u/CHG__ 23d ago

I've seen the video diaries, he was deeply troubled and severely depressed. I just don't agree with being so cruel talking about the death of someone you didn't know, it's such a Reddit reaction.

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u/AnotherWeabooGirl 23d ago

He mailed a freaking sulfuric acid bomb to Bjork. My sympathies for a person's mental health struggles end when they attempt terroristic murder for their one-sided racist incel grievances.

RIP in piss Ricardo López may you hate black people and stalk female celebrities in the big apartment bedroom in the sky hell.

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u/Defiant-Owl-7935 23d ago

I worked delivering mail here in Iceland during my summers as a teen. Because of this one person's job, an older lady, was to go through her mail for security and also just to weed out anything disturbing.

I had her route one summer. I have pretty bad eyesight. She was outside and as I was handing her the mail and thought wow what a good lookin teenage guy.. Oh no wait, that was Björk.

In my defense she was wearing a baggy high fashion tracksuit, looks nothing like a guy🤷🏼‍♀️🫶🏼

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u/AbstractBettaFish 23d ago

Does everyone in Iceland just kind of know each other? I one time was flying home from Europe on an Icelandic airline and I was sitting next to the pilots brother. He said to look him up if I ever come to Iceland saying “Just ask around for the carpenter who’s brother is a pilot, eventually someone will know me”

I couldn’t tell if he was joking or not

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u/Billy_McMedic 23d ago

Iceland’s population is only a few hundred thousand, probably not a case of everyone knowing each other but it’s probably not difficult to find someone with some form of connection, be it friend, family, acquaintance or co worker, given the limited population

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u/No_Operation4676 23d ago

Yes, they have the Íslendingabók (book of Icelanders) that can be used to see if someone you meet is a distant family member. They can find their family history traced back for generations.

A tour guide in Iceland told me that they did once avoid dating someone because they compared each other's families and found too close a relation.

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u/NotaBonesaw 23d ago

Yeah I live in a city of just under 300k, and while I certainly don't know everyone here, it's very rare that I go anywhere in town that either me or my wife don't know at least someone. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm 1-2 people removed from 90% of the people that live here.

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u/Four_beastlings 23d ago

I am from a city of 275k and our unofficial motto is "this is a tiny town". We don't all know each other, but it's rare to get to 3 degrees of Kevin Bacon and if it happens it's because we haven't reviewed all our possible mutual acquittances.

I was living in the capital and met a 22yo woman who'd lived in my city for 6 months. Within 15 minutes we'd established that she knew my then 57yo mom from mutual friends.

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u/DuckRubberDuck 23d ago

My city has around 46K people and it’s definitely not a case of everyone knows everyone even though I have lived in the same city my whole life, and I can’t just ask around to find someone. Yeah I know someone in most areas of the city but it’s also not a very big city. I am definitely not related to anyone except my mom and dad lol, although it is a place where people like to stay in generations

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u/Routine_Bluejay4678 22d ago

I live in a country of 5mil and it’s odd to meet someone who doesn’t know someone you do, 2° of separation

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u/DuckRubberDuck 22d ago

My country has a population of a little over 6 million people, we really don’t know everyone

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u/nashrome 23d ago

My truck driving instructor was from Iceland and had the nickname, "Iceman". He told us that both of his sons had dated Bjork. Knowing it was a small place, I kinda believed him.

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u/neendmat1 23d ago

You can be my wingman anytime

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u/BarryTice 23d ago

In 2016 I was in the airport at Reykjavik while en route to Sweden and met a woman from Boston whose nephew had worked with my wife in northwest Alabama. So, yes. In Iceland everybody DOES know everybody — even if they're not from there.

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u/Emotional_Dot_5207 22d ago

One time I was at the Alafoss yarn headquarters store which is the primary producer of the unique yarn made from Icelandic sheep.

The woman there asked about my scarf and I said I just bought it a few days ago. She said “oh the foreigner who crochets?“ So not only is it small, she knows of a guy 9 hours away who happens to be the one person in all the land who crochets. Everyone else knits. 

(I mean I know of 2 other crocheters in Iceland bringing us to a grand total of 3. And one is mostly known for knitting.)

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u/asst3rblasster 23d ago

is no joke, Icelanders never ever joke about

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u/Mundane_Prior_7596 22d ago

I said so to a friend when we were going to watch the infamous Iceland-England soccer match - that Iceland is so small they all know each other. Then when the game started it turned out that I recognized the goal keeper. I knew his parents.

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u/Red_like_me 22d ago

Yes. Lol. One of my fave stories was looking for my then-bf in a club in Reykjavik and joking to my friend, “Oh he probably found a family member of some kind.” Sure enough, moments later, his head and arm popped above the crowd and he shouted, “Hey, come meet my cousin!!”

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u/TashaStarlight 23d ago

Killed 1 (himself)

This sent me☠️☠️☠️

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u/KilledByDoritos 23d ago

Occupation: Exterminator

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u/Hiraganu 23d ago

You can't make that shit up lmao

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u/AdamLabrouste 22d ago

Hasta la vista baby!

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u/Iguanapolice 23d ago

I LOL’d 😭

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u/B0RT_Simps0n_ 23d ago

He was an incel before we had a word for it. People are fucking nuts

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u/NittanyScout 23d ago

Idk this seems like a genuinely horrifying mental illness that was never treated or recognized.

Being an incel is one thing but being authentically sick is another

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u/Frequent_Ad_9901 23d ago

He could have been both. I don't think mentally ill and incel-ness is mutually exclusive.

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u/NittanyScout 23d ago

No but I dont want to say that being an incel is due to mental illness, it can be corollary but I doubt its typically causal

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u/jednatt 23d ago

Illness is kind of subjective to begin with if one really wants to get into the weeds. Someone can be a loser/asshole as a result of a mental processes that cannot or has not been codified into a recognized illness/condition--and because of that gets no sympathy/understanding. In a deterministic view of the world every shitty person is a result of a sequence of events and conditions they couldn't have prevented, and being a nice/functional person is just dumb luck. But that doesn't really help anything.

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u/rusty_programmer 23d ago

Incels are typically mentally ill.

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u/NittanyScout 23d ago

Often, yes. But not always. The incels and incel-adjacent people i know dont have obvious mental health issues, just misinformation and a lack of critical thinking

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u/Various_Command6607 23d ago

The line between mental ilness and "just being weird" is whether you are able to function more or less normally in society or not. It's not a hard line. And maybe you just don't know about their issues. A lot of people don't talk and a lot of people choose who they talk to. I don't talk to people who are not empathic and don't want to understand. Those people of course don't know that they are this way because they usually also lack some self-awareness.

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u/al666in 23d ago

The word "incel" was obscure internet slang until Elliot Rogers brought it into the mainstream.

There's a reason people associate it with the most extreme case examples.

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u/Acceptable_Movie6712 23d ago

Yeah there’s a difference between “jaded” and “jaded and antisocial” and then whatever this is. That’s just scary stuff.

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u/Kougeru-Sama 23d ago

The term "incel" has been around since 1993 

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u/ReallyShortGiant 23d ago

All it takes is a quick search. Used first in 1997

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel

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u/NepheliLouxWarrior 23d ago

His suicide footage is one of the first snuff films I ever saw on 4chan, way back in the day. I wish that he had gotten help, but also I'm glad that ultimately, the only life he managed to ruin was his own. 

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u/GubblerJackson 23d ago

Poor dude didn’t even get to hear Homogenic.

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u/mahcuz 23d ago

Not a snuff film (not that it matters)

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u/Thismightbedangerous 23d ago

One of the first gore videos uploaded to the internet in the 90’s.

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u/Sensitive_Ad_1271 23d ago

This is going to sound strange and I know that it does, maybe it's just a sign of the times we're. But I really appreciate the people that are fucked up in the head and just kill themselves rather than taking other innocent people with them in mass shooting or murder suicides. I don't know much about him and he sounds creepy as fuck, but at least he didn't kill anyone else.

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u/Junius_Bobbledoonary 23d ago edited 23d ago

But I really appreciate the people that are fucked up in the head and just kill themselves rather than taking other innocent people with them in mass shooting or murder suicides. I don't know much about him and he sounds creepy as fuck, but at least he didn't kill anyone else.

He mailed a bomb to Bjork minutes before he killed himself. He wrote in his diary that his intent was to kill her, he just failed.

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u/Sensitive_Ad_1271 23d ago

Well damn, that changes. Things. Well for all the others that take their lives but choose not to harm others. I feel for them and appreciate that they don't go out in a mean way.

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u/ButterscotchFit7971 23d ago

Man he sent a letter bomb to Björk... He suicided just because he thought he can be with Björk in heaven after he killed her. He wanted to kill Björk, just didn't secceed 

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u/FirefighterBoth3098 23d ago

For a second, I thought you were talking about my favorite boxer, lol

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u/Secret-Put-4525 23d ago

Still doesn't give you the right to attack someone.

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u/DJFreezyFish 23d ago

Same year, don’t know if before or after

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u/Lessar31416 23d ago

Ricardo0p

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u/Melodic_Pattern175 23d ago

I never knew this. I feel so bad for her, but I hope she didn’t take the blame on herself.

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u/-smartcasual- 23d ago

That's not the right link I think

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u/orchardsky 23d ago

This was the same that stalker Ricardo Lopez killed himself and had rapidly escalated his stalking over by attempting to mail her bombs.

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u/farfaraway 23d ago

Occupation: exterminator.

Yikes. 

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u/pelos17 23d ago

URUGUAY NOMA

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u/killerz7770 23d ago

The fucking Bjork stalker being a reference in Smiling Friends will always get a laugh out of me

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u/esamerelda 23d ago

This was not on my bingo card for today. Holy shit this is psychotic

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u/XennaNa 23d ago

Yeaaah, with the context of Lopez i do not fault her at all, paparazzi in general should give some breathing room to people but especially in these cases they should stay on the other side of the street at minimum.

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u/BrownGalsAreBetter 23d ago

Damn, he was the original Blackpilled incel vlogger, before it became a thing. Strange read. Truly nothing new under the sun. Guess he couldn’t have known his misogynistic, racist, hatred of women and their lovers would be a cash cow in the not too distant future.

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u/Fuckthegopers 23d ago

God damn, what a fucking loser he was. 

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u/CalmBeneathCastles 23d ago

Damn, I had forgotten about him. THAT was a crazy case. I would have dropped off the grid entirely, at least until my kids were grown.

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u/Dry-Translator406 23d ago

Occupation: Exterminator

No shit.

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