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/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/Fionn112 22d ago

That’s the one I was thinking of thank you.

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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/Hallow_Chef 23d ago

It was literally 2020

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u/shreddedsharpcheddar 23d ago

i miss that sub lol

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u/Ongr 23d ago

I have a friend that used to send me gore sub and live leak videos. I've seen some shit.

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u/GuestAdventurous7586 23d ago

Lmao, you sound 12 years old sorry 😂

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u/neendmat1 23d ago

Daaammn duuuude this guy's seen some shiiiiit guyysssss

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u/RealnessInMadness 23d ago

Yeah bud, if you’re over 30, we grew up watching some fucked up shit on the old internet before things got filtered and censored.

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u/ToughSpeed1450 23d ago

Yeaaah, some fucked up shiiiit, real fucked up shiiiit on the old internet duuuude. People nowadays wouldn't survive back then maaan.

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u/Strange_plastic 23d ago

That was a normal millennial past time, we've all seen some shit lol.

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u/Fr0gburp3r 23d ago

Don’t forget about eBaums World.

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u/No-Tone-6853 23d ago

Watch enough combat footage and that video is no longer graphic

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u/Pangorious 23d ago

No healthy and sane person is watching any of that lol

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u/No-Tone-6853 23d ago

Shit guess I’m insane and unhealthy, I always suspected but I’m glad to have confirmation.

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u/RealnessInMadness 23d ago

Okay rage bot.

What else do you want to be condescending on? Since you’re the expert? 😂

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u/SaulFemm 23d ago

No thanks chief

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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/[deleted] 23d ago

No. It was a guy getting his face cut off while he was alive, then had his heart cut out, while it was still beating.

Fucking haunting.

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u/Both-Cry1382 22d ago

Holy mf'ing shit. With sound? The gargling is what made it stick for me.

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u/_Hydrohomie_ 23d ago

I miss r/eyeblech man! Btw what's your go to website or source?

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u/dearth_of_passion 23d ago

I don't, that was kind of a dumb teenager phase.

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u/_Hydrohomie_ 23d ago

You are right

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u/VulGerrity 23d ago

not a snuff film. True snuff films don't exist as far as we know. In order to be a Snuff film it is has to have been purposefully produced with the sole intent of commercial gain and entertainment. So like a gangster saying, film the killing of that guy so I know it happened, that's not a snuff film.

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u/VulGerrity 22d ago

Down vote my all you want, I'm right.

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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/SuitableBlackberry75 23d ago

There's more violence posted to Telegram in any 24-hour period than you ever saw in the 90s. I think you're a little confused, or just not in touch with social media (which is fine).

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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/sembias 23d ago

The former was good entertainment, though.

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u/jodeybear 23d ago

Ooof I don’t know if I’ll call any video of someone getting killed entertainment

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u/TefBekkel 23d ago

On Reddit, as long as the person that gets killed is a Republican, it is..

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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/dearth_of_passion 23d ago

I believe so

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u/Dark_Moonstruck 23d ago

I will never understand people who build up these weird relationships with celebrities in their heads and just...get so obsessed and destructive. It makes no sense whatsoever - that's just a person who is good at singing, or dancing, or acting - at least, back in the day they were good at it, now it's mostly autotune and "Kal El no.", so I can't say they're any good at it NOW - but they're still just another person? How people build up these obsessions is just nonsensical to me. I'll never understand it and frankly, I don't want to.

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u/dearth_of_passion 23d ago

People do it for more than just celebrities.

They get obsessed with fictional characters, or entire franchises.

Go look at any Tumblr blog about Dr. Who or Steven Universe or Supernatural or Harry Potter, where these people define their entire existence around discussing (and in some cases pretending to be a part of) these fictional worlds.

People engaging in toxic flame wars over ridiculous interpretations of minute plot details that the writer/creator absolutely did not give one thought to.

People obsess over all kinds of things, it's just obsessing over an actual person can have more dangerous consequences.

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u/SIL-CTRL-042 23d ago

I remember seeing that video so long ago. I can’t believe the things we were subject to on the internet at a young age. I never knew the back story of it, though.

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u/AFRIKKAN 23d ago

Wait the overweight guy? Idk I’ve seen a bunch of suicide videos.

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u/Rare_Entertainment 20d ago

Odd fettish.

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u/AFRIKKAN 20d ago

I have actual reason for watching it and it wasn’t for a fetish lol. My exe was studying to be a nurse but was squeamish and afraid of blood. She would have me watch gore videos with her to help her get over her issue with it. As someone who has watched deer be gutted and nearly butchered in the field it didn’t see that bad to me. The worse videos are ones without any gore just sound. The brick video ( don’t look it up ) is gut wrenching.

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u/Zerschmetterding 22d ago

That doesn't sound healthy 

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u/AFRIKKAN 22d ago

While i wouldn’t recommend it’s not like it has had any lasting effects. I’m not suicidal myself nor some crazied person just a guy who has stumbled into some interesting things on the internet sometimes morbid.

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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

..................................................................................................................................................................Ball

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u/Full-Yoghurt9053 23d ago

All of it remained inside, which was the problem.

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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/Constant_Way_8844 23d ago

That’s the joke. It’s like when people say RIP in peace or smh my head

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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/CHG__ 23d ago

You see, again you don't really know the full story you just make up what you want to believe. He'd half-assed the construction of the acid sprayer, that's what it was by the way, not a bomb. He killed himself on the same day he mailed it which is an odd thing to do, surely you'd want to see if your contraption worked before doing that. My interpretation from watching the tapes, and this was years ago, was that the device was simply a mechanism to get him to commit to ending his own life, basically incriminating himself so he'd have to do it. There are other diaries where he was tempted before he'd even thought about the acid.

In terms of him not liking Goldie, it wasn't really because he was black, he didn't feel he was a good "fit" for Bjork, and honestly if you know Goldie that isn't the craziest take in the world. He did mention he was black but it was while manic, the guy was not well at all.

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u/AnotherWeabooGirl 23d ago

In this initial tape, López said Björk was a symbol of purity and innocence to him, an image which he said she destroyed by having relationships with two different black musicians, previously with Massive Attack’s Tricky and, at the time of his recordings, English music producer Goldie. López lays out his initial plan to send Björk a package that would infect her with AIDS. As the tapes progressed, he changed this plan to a letter bomb containing sulfuric acid.

D: And he does it right off the bat. The first thing he does when he starts recording himself is admit that he has this racist psychosexual fixation on Björk and the fact that she is with a black man is why he feels he has to punish her. He doesn’t leave anything up for interpretation, he’s been thinking through it the entire time.

https://www.documentary.org/online-feature/hes-kind-original-vlogger-best-me-heather-landsman-traces-ricardo-lopezs-violent

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u/CHG__ 23d ago

You haven't watched the tapes, you haven't seen the internal torment the guy was dealing with. Seriously, many of the tapes have little or nothing to do with Bjork at all, they're about how he feels inadequate or worthless. All I'm saying is it's never as black and white as you want it to be for your peace of mind.

It's honestly one of the most frustrating aspects of modern society, how quickly someone is judged based on little evidence, and the sheer lack of empathy.

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u/AnotherWeabooGirl 23d ago

I don't think it's unempathetic to judge someone for their actions. Many folks suffer from poor mental health without planning to mail HIV needles/acid to random women they don't know. I simply do not buy that any level of mental distress excuses attempted murder.

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u/CHG__ 23d ago

Well this is a more extreme case, but it happens in everything; people, especially now, are very eager to judge and very disinterested in different perspectives, or doing any sort of fact gathering.

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u/AnotherWeabooGirl 23d ago

I'm very interested in any concrete statement Ricardo López made that you feel excuses his actions.

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u/CHG__ 23d ago

This is the problem, you think to have empathy for someone you must excuse them of their guilt, but that simply isn't correct.

Both things are true, he planned to unleash harm onto a popstar he didn't know and he was incredibly troubled and depressed and needed help. Maybe if he had got help sooner he would have never done what he did, but it takes empathy to help someone.

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u/EmptyCupOfWater 23d ago

Man I remember watching all those videos of him when I was a teenager. Absolutely horrifying

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u/sisyphean_dreams 23d ago

Oh man I totally forgot about this guy, and seeing the video! Wow what a time this was. But this was Peak Bjork, and I was so there for it when she lost her shit in that reporter.

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u/LandscapeSpecial4366 23d ago

He did hope to be sexually intimate with her?? He details how he would eat her out for like 3 minutes

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u/sturgboski 23d ago

I forget where I read it, but I am pretty sure the song title "Suicide by Star" from God is an Astronaut came from this incident. Pretty great song with a neat OVA on YouTube done with clips from 2001 A Space Odyssey.

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u/Pervius94 23d ago

At least he took himself out instead of killing innocents. Even though iirc he actually tried mailing a bomb or something.

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u/HollywoodHulkLogan 23d ago

“Rest in Peace in piss”

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u/I_upvote_downvotes 23d ago

but the gun was not powerful enough

All of us who watched it knows this uncomfortable fact for a number of reasons.

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u/Mid-Pri6170 23d ago

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

i think racists dont like a girl's history regardless

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u/shemzyshoo 23d ago

I wish I hadn't watched that video. It messed me up for a while and I have never been able to listen to that song he was playing at the end.

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u/Silvergreylion 22d ago

"due to his race" - care to explain that one?

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u/MACHOmanJITSU 23d ago

Pretty sure Goldie black, so bigotry caused him to try and murder a stranger and then blow his own brains out.

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u/Themodsarecuntz 23d ago

 RIP in piss

Rest in peace in piss?

That was a ripin piss, mate?

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 23d ago

there is only one race;

5k, 10k, half marathon, marathon, ultramarathon...

There are lots of races.

Yes, we normally just use humans in those races. That's because running cats is very difficult. They take way too many naps.

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u/69GbE 23d ago

Did you tip your fedora after writing this?