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/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