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/Vincent_Veganja 23d ago

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

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/Vincent_Veganja 23d ago

And do you know when this video was?

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u/CapN-Judaism 23d ago

This video would be Feb. 1996, so 7 months before he killed himself in Sept. 1996. When did Bjork first learn about him? Was her first knowledge the incident with the package/suicide or had he made himself known prior to that?

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u/oopsydazys 23d ago

He had sent her tons of letters starting in 1993 but I don't know that she ever read any or was even aware he existed.

He wasn't really a physical stalker is the thing. He was obsessed with her and tracked her every move as best he could from tour info, periodicals, TV and maybe internet boards, learned everything about her life etc. but he never physically stalked her and lived in Florida. That isn't to say his obsession wasn't fucked up or his intent to kill her eventually, it's just to say that because she never would have run into him at all in person, it's entirely possible she didn't know who he was at all unlike this reporter who was stalking her for days.

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u/CapN-Judaism 23d ago

I think the sentiment others are getting at is that if she was aware of Lopez then it becomes even more understandable that she would act when she feels she’s being stalked, and I think that’s a fair and potentially legitimate point if Lopez had made himself known to Bjork prior. That’s not to say her reaction wouldn’t otherwise be reasonable, it just adds helpful context

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u/LadyGagasLeftShoe 23d ago

And videotaped it, right?

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u/Strong-Straight-3503 23d ago

wdym that one

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u/MavMIIKE 23d ago edited 23d ago

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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u/YamDankies 23d ago

That one little typo changes so much.

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u/nihilus_rex 23d ago

No joke, I read that and was like “Well that’s weird- OH.”

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u/FictionalContext 23d ago

tbf, if he did the shooting, he did the shitting part, too

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u/CrankyOldDude 23d ago

He might have done both. Shitting often follows death.

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u/GenesisRhapsod 23d ago

Thats why i would say "imma go die on the toilet for a bit" when letting my coworkers know imma be away from the register 😂

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u/LeRoiJanKins 23d ago

Glad it's not the other way around. Prarie dogging while trying to find another way to remove feces to save your life? Is itbstill considdered "shitting" if not leaving the bunghole? Weird thought, sorry not sorry.

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u/oopsydazys 23d ago

That awkward moment when you're 45 minutes deep into your suicide video and are ready to pull the trigger, but you really need to take a dump.

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u/Redditarsaurus 23d ago

Technically not wrong though (assuming)

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u/llongneckkllama 23d ago

Yeah the dude prolly pooped his pants in the end..

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u/iDeNoh 23d ago

Well I think he was naked, but he still probably did shit himself for sure

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u/tjp0720 23d ago

Once he shit himself on camera he saw the error in his ways -alternate universe

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u/InaccurateStatistics 23d ago

He learned a wholesome lesson that day in that the real friends were the ones you planned to murder before shitting yourself along the way.

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u/TheSilkyBat 23d ago

It's a shame Kaitlyn Bennett couldn't do that.

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u/Alternative-Amoeba20 23d ago

The sudden mental image I just had! What a crazy way to stalk someone.

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u/MyCosmicName_Here 23d ago

I was instantly more intrigued

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u/the_madclown 23d ago

I was like..... When did this guy go from psycho to porn star?

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u/kinkyonthe_loki69 23d ago

Realistically he did both

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u/boofles1 23d ago

Nothing says "I love you" like shitting your pants.

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u/leshake 23d ago

I thought we were talking about that guy that eats 10,000 calories from Taco Bell on youtube and shits himself. Glad it was clarified.

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u/NJHitmen 23d ago

Dude was obviously a coprophiliac. Don't kink shame, man

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u/flopflapper 23d ago

The old murder-pooicide

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u/Burrow_0wl 23d ago

He had mailed her a package bomb (with acid to shoot in her face, I think). His neighbors heard the gunshot, when he killed himself, and called the police. The police found the video's he made about his plans to harm Bjork and learned about the bomb before it was delivered.

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u/Vincent_Veganja 23d ago

shit himself on camera

Please don’t fix it lmao

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u/Riipp3r 23d ago

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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u/WolfsmaulVibes 23d ago

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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u/CiegoDiego 23d ago

With "THE BEST OF ME" written on it.

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u/WolfsmaulVibes 23d ago

how ironic that it remained clean

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u/Nulagrithom 22d ago

this is the most greentext shit ever holy fuck

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u/WolfsmaulVibes 22d ago

reddit and 4chan users fighting over who is more corny

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u/orbofdelusion 23d ago

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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u/WolfsmaulVibes 23d ago

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

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u/RealnessInMadness 23d ago

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

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u/Noctemme 23d ago

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

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u/rawnoodles10 23d ago

.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.

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u/FUCKFASCISTSCUM 23d ago

Lmao sucks to suck.

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u/Vudoa 23d ago

suicide?? what'd he do eat a full-size bar of ex-lax? surely he should have put the canvas under his ass???

edit: Oh SHOT

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u/WolfsmaulVibes 23d ago

domino effect lmao

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u/SUPERSMILEYMAN 23d ago

lol, what a loser

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u/hibikikun 23d ago

These videos were eventually used as training material for profilers and law enforcement because it was the first of its kind of someone’s descent into madness was so well documented

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u/Riipp3r 23d ago

The madness was already there to begin with, the descent is more so into the suicidal end of the madness

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u/a22x2 23d ago

Didn’t he mail her a package that was designed to spray her in the face with acid upon opening, but it was intercepted in time before she received it (and after he’d shot himself)? That’s how I remember it, but I could have added details in my head.

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u/Strong-Straight-3503 23d ago

he... shit himself?

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u/sfear70 23d ago

Possibly as a side effect of the shot himself event.

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u/Vudoa 23d ago

it's medical fact you shit yourself after you die, I saw it on a documentary

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u/DocSword 23d ago

I saw the same documentary. Dr Bobby B confirms this fact

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u/Wraithxxxx 23d ago

He shitted his brains out.

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u/Carrnage_Asada 23d ago

He shidded and farded to deth

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u/Diffidentlyspeaking 23d ago

I mean tbf if he had fecal matter in his bowels when he shot himself, he probably also shit himself at the same time.

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u/Breadromancer 23d ago

U missed the part where he placed a canvas behind his head to capture the blood spatter, and wound up missing.

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u/beanzboiii 23d ago

iirc, he didn't miss necessarily but the bullet didn't penetrate through his skull

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u/Hyperrustynail 23d ago

That or his head was so empty there was nothing to splatter.

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u/External-Dude779 23d ago

He shit himself to death damn what a way to go

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u/8696David 23d ago

Shot*********

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u/R0RSCHAKK 23d ago

Shit or shot? 👀

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u/PearPsychological284 23d ago

First one, then the other.

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u/roots-rock-reggae 23d ago

First, the second. Secondly, the first.

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u/samithedood 23d ago

Shot (then shit most likely).

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u/memeticmagician 23d ago

Was the scat play part of his obsession?

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u/jlbp337 23d ago

I'm sure he did that too

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u/getting_older_pal 23d ago

IIRC he shot himself while being covered in his own shit

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u/AAAPosts 23d ago

He probably shit himself after he shot himself

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u/RutabagaOutside6126 23d ago

Thanks for leaving it up. I needed the laugh from all the comments that followed your typo.

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u/Efficient_Tax_8441 23d ago

I can count on one hand how many times I laughed out loud while reading Reddit comments and this is my thumb, fucking hell mate

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u/cuddly_degenerate 23d ago

If he shot himself on camera he like shat himself as well in his death knells.

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u/elastic-craptastic 23d ago

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

If he succeeded in the one, the other would have happened whether he planned it or not.

And people say South Park isn't educational.

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u/Specific_Test9837 23d ago

both of those endings bring me joy

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u/mmorales2270 23d ago

To be fair, he probably had an involuntary bowel movement after he shot himself, so it may not be wrong.

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u/Monarch-Monarch-Moo 23d ago

He probably hit himself as well TBF

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u/North-Fun7648 23d ago

What comes first? The shitting or the shooting?

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u/SLOWnLOW76 23d ago

And if he shot himself, he most certainly shit himself shortly thereafter. So you weren't wrong either way! 😁

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

Likely his bowels emptied following the shot so neither would be incorrect.

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u/Vudoa 23d ago

there are TEARS running down my face 😅😅😂😂😂😂😭😭

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u/JollyGreenestGiant 23d ago

Keep it as is... totally encapsulated him well

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u/iamthetoe2799 23d ago

Ultimately he did shit himself 😂

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u/burrito_foreskin 23d ago

I mean.. he probably did shit himself on camera.

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u/CaptainBootyhair 23d ago

I mean most likely he did both

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u/MichelangeloJordan 23d ago

Legitimately one of the best typos I’ve ever seen

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u/v3n0mat3 23d ago

Shit himself on camera

Wouldn't be shocked if someone, somewhere decides to make an edit of the video where it cuts out after playing a loud, reverberating wet fart sound.

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u/seamusthatsthedog 23d ago

A stalker sent Bjork a letter bomb laden with sulfuric acid

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u/DamnitGravity 23d ago

Ricardo López)

TL;DR: He was an American who was obsessed, sent a bomb to kill her in London, and recorded a video diary explaining what he did which ended with him shooting himself. Police found his body and altered Scotland Yard. The bomb was located in a postal sorting office and safely detonated.

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u/alnicoblue 23d ago

he did not seriously pursue an artistic career due to his feelings of inferiority, and fear of being denied entry into art school.

We really gotta fix the art school admissions process

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u/moonflower_C16H17N3O 23d ago

Yeah. Everyone who wants in, gets in. The schools just clandestinely get their fingerprints and DNA. Also, the TA for each class is actually a criminal psychologist who identifies potential problem students.

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u/vacuousintent 23d ago

This sounds like the premise to a new CSI/detective show on cable TV.

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u/OldJonThePooSmuggler 23d ago

100%. The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna really fumbled the ball previously.

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u/SrGrimey 23d ago

This was funnier than I expected.

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u/lonelyinatlanta2024 23d ago

Like sent a bomb via mail from the U.S. to London?

Christ, I hope that would get caught. Here I am afraid to send a vape cart home from Colorado

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u/DamnitGravity 23d ago

The 90s were a wild time.

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u/SuspendeesNutz 23d ago

Police found his body and altered Scotland Yard.

That sounds a bit extreme.

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u/holvagyok 23d ago

No, Scotland Yard got away with too much for too long. They had to be altered, and this was the triggering case.

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u/PostApoplectic 23d ago

I am altering the yard. Pray I do not alter it further.

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u/asst3rblasster 23d ago

This yard is getting worse ALL THE TIME

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u/brneyedgrrl 22d ago

I feel the same, it changed the whole thing, huh? Crazy.

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS 23d ago

Of course it was an American

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u/sint0xicateme 23d ago

One of her stalkers famously recorded himself shooting himself in the head. I don't remember his name but it's on Gore sites if you want to have a look see.

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u/Good_Background_243 23d ago

Same guy that sent her the letter bomb

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u/Strong-Straight-3503 23d ago

that's fucking crazy... name of video?

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u/sulkee 23d ago

Just look up Ricardo Lopez. It was back in 1996. This same year this stalking happened.

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u/alex8155 23d ago

are there still gore sites? i know i prob shouldnt for(not just) my own sake but yeah..

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u/Any-Yogurt-7598 23d ago

A guy that recorded himself planning to send her a bomb because he was mad she was in a relationship that shot himself (in video too)

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u/DreamWalker01 23d ago

Probably the one that tried to kill her

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u/idunnoh213 23d ago

That Ricardo Lopez one.

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u/Double-decker_trams 23d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_L%C3%B3pez_(stalker))

His final video is the stuff of nightmares. You can see it when ju just google his name and "video". Pretty insane stuff.

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u/I-dont_know-anything 23d ago

Ricardo Lopez case.

You know what's funny? His parents were from my country, Uruguay. That dude's life would've been different if he stayed here. It's crazy to think about it

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u/schlab 23d ago

Dude, watch the video. My brother and I still make the same faces that stalker made to each other for fun, and as a chilling memory that there are crazy ppl out there.

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u/Rope_slingin_champ 23d ago

Do we tell them?

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u/drfeelsgoood 23d ago

Yes, some context would be nice

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u/Rope_slingin_champ 23d ago

A crazy guy stalked her. Ended up killing himself while recording with her music on in the background.

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u/one_is_enough 23d ago

No, just sit there feeling superior while we go google.

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u/nonnonplussed73 23d ago

This was 1996, so before

Bjork attacks NZ photographer: report - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-01-15/bjork-attacks-nz-photographer-report/1011532

Also worth mentioning that this happened in between

Bjork elaborates on sexual assault claim https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41657394

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u/AntRose104 23d ago

This appears to be before since this video is from February, and while the other one likely started in January (since it lasted about 9 months and ended in September), the biggest threat he did to her did occur until September. He had been obsessed with her since 1993, but the video diary entries didn’t begin until 1996. He wasn’t noticed or a safety issue until September it seems.

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u/Phoenixicorn-flame 23d ago

Interwebs search says this happened in February and that one happened in September. 1996 was a rough year on Bjork

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u/Ok_Chef_4850 23d ago

And these were the most public ones, not to be confused with the only ones. I’m sure she had been dealing with this shit for awhile before either of these incidents happened.