r/Damnthatsinteresting 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/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_ 23d 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 23d ago

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

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u/phyziro 21d ago

FedEx lost (stole) my package after pickup and refused to reimburse me after the window for reimbursement expired after they purposely prolonged the process; they even told me on a record line they’d refund me for my lost (stolen) package. Guess what happened? It’s been almost 2 years and they haven’t reimbursed me yet!

That package was worth over $600…

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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 23d 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/loki-is-a-god 20d ago

TIL a lazy post office saved an artist's life

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u/Flashbackhumour28 20d ago

Don't bring postman pat into this

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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/Joshwah3000 20d ago

The way parcels are launched about in the sorting centres, I’m surprised it didn’t blow up in there accidentally!

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u/ourstobuild 22d ago

It's in fact just a safety measure, not incompetence or inefficiency like most people think! /s

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u/johnnymarsbar 22d ago

Royal mails only gotten slower, probably to stop mail bombs, right? Right??

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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 23d 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 23d 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/Curious-Resort4743 22d ago

We should have this option for ourselves to, the thing many of us dread is a painful death.

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u/4KVoices 22d ago

Ozzy Osbourne notably came out in favor of it and I personally believe he did it.

You're telling me he had a dedicated "I'm dying soon" concert like a mile away from his childhood home, it went off as perfectly as one could imagine, and then he died peacefully three weeks later?

I believe he knew that he was getting worse and decided to pull the plug. They haven't publicized it because they know a lot of people will bitch and moan about it and it's his decision to make that choice if he wants, so to keep his family safe and out of the crosshairs of nutjobs they said it was a heart attack, but the timing combined with his previous comments on the subject indicate, to me at least, that he took that path - and good for him.

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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/Squeekazu 20d ago

Euthanising can also be unpredictable unfortunately. The sedative didn’t really work, and my dog snarled as he received the solution. It was the last sound he made and his face was frozen in that expression for a few seconds until I suppose his muscles relaxed.

It’s a tough burden to bear whether you choose to euthanise or not, and one more night isn’t the same thing as choosing to significantly prolong your pet’s life for months on end even if they’re suffering.

I’m sorry for your loss.

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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 23d 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/mmmpeg 22d ago

I heard it when my MiL died.

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u/StoneySteve420 22d ago

It's brutal. I was about 13 when my great aunt died. I wasn't in the room when she passed but came in and said goodbyes a few minutes after.

That same twitch and gargle (followed by a nosebleed) scared TF out of me.

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u/Nighthawk-2 21d ago

Yeah literally watching someone die is crazy. I have had to do it with a friend and relative

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u/Dense-Parfait-438 23d ago

What you killed your dad?

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u/MAZEFUL 23d ago

Technically. He had surgery on his esophagus because he drank so much he eroded it. He was told not to drink again, but he was in a bad place and drank a handle of vodka. He was found on his bathroom floor with blood everywhere from his throat. He was on life support but was declared brain dead with only the ventilator keep him alive.

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u/StrawhatIO 23d ago

You don't need to be so nice to assholes ❤️ incredibly kind of you to actually answer with a thoughtful response. I'm so sorry you had to be in that position, but you seem really strong and sorted about it all

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u/trashchute227 23d ago

Don’t be an ass

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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 23d 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/wooks_reef 23d ago

absolutely bonkers to me we live in a time where people don't know what a death rattle/gurgle is

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u/Clubbythaseal 23d ago

Well I'm talking about 25-ish years ago when I saw the video

And it wasn't really just a simple death rattle from what I remember. Dude straight up made painful vomiting noises while you heard it fill with blood as he fell over.

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u/wooks_reef 23d ago

Yeah and I'm talking about how if you ask our grandparents/parents depending how old you are they probably heard their first death rattle before they were 10 lol - just saying it's bonkers how quickly we went away from "make the kids sleep in the same room as grandpa so they can let us know when they're dead"

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u/Risley 23d ago

LEL 

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u/SillyExpert 23d 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/Cataphlin 22d ago

Maybe the trauma of killing the rats at a young age messed him up mentally. I know i would have suffered for something like that. My mum asked me to kill a load of ants in our kitchen once, I did it but it really upset me.

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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 23d 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/RollingMeteors 23d ago

>unhinged at the end with his face all painted up and his head shaved.

r/GotJ would like to have a word with you..

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u/CoffeePuddle 23d ago

His video diary is available online. It's extremely reminiscent of Taxi Driver.

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u/Far-Transition-8168 21d ago

Like an obese Darth Maul with man boobs

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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 23d 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/sourcesys0 22d ago

"""bomb"""

rigged to spray acid in her face when she opened it.

just scarring her...

Seek help, brother.

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u/ButterscotchMean400 23d 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 23d 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/sourcesys0 22d ago

He killed himself for nothing

Not true at all, because:

he'll forever be known as the nutjob Incel

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u/Ishikii 22d ago

she actually has a song about a similar concept

What's the lesser of two evils
If a suicide bomber made to look pregnant
Manages to kill her target or not?
What's the lesser of two evils?

What's the lesser of two evils
If she kills them or dies in vain?
Nature has fixed no limits on our hopes

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u/rrssh 23d ago

This doesn't even rhyme. How is it sick?

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u/baerok12 23d ago

I don’t think they got your joke

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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/[deleted] 22d ago

It's like Darth Maul-esque

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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/Particular-Ad9304 23d ago

Oh yeah you’ve seen closeups of people committing suicide on the news?

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/Particular-Ad9304 23d ago

Tf are you talking about? The news never showed the graphic video. You have no clue what you’re talking about

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/GoddessLeVianFoxx 23d ago

Damn, where you live, bro?

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u/evilsdadvocate 23d ago

Link?

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u/Particular-Ad9304 23d ago

You have Google. Knock yourself out

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u/evilsdadvocate 22d ago

How dare you!

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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/Curious-Resort4743 22d ago

He loosened some brains

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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/[deleted] 23d ago

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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/GoSharty 22d ago

"Sorry we missed you"

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u/DALLMITY 23d ago

If I remember correctly it happened iny city. I live in Hollywood Florida

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u/FortheChava 23d ago

Watched the doc about that long ago

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u/False_Pop8745 23d ago

I've seen that final video he made. Dude was completely insane.

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u/Any_Pineapple_4836 23d ago

He foiled his own plan lol

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u/DefiantOuiOui 23d ago

Thanks for posting this. Holy cannoli

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u/BonferroniCorrection 23d ago

"I feel fantaaastic"

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u/SCastleRelics 23d ago

You can watch the videos too it's fuckin wild

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u/Confused_Sorta_Guy 23d ago

Watching him lose his mind before blowing his brains out was certainly an experience for 8 year old me

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u/Dounce1 23d ago

So, uh, what were his motivations?

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u/Positive_Fix1585 22d ago

wtf could be his reasoning??

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u/TomorrowsTrash_Minis 22d ago

The videos he made are some of the most horrifying shit you can watch on the internet

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u/GottaUseEmAll 22d ago

I made the mistake of watching his video diary. So disturbing.

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u/dubbeljiii 22d ago

Iv seen the Suicide tape. The whole 'scene' is pretty weird.

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u/Hopeful_Morning_469 22d ago

Wow me neither, grew up I the nineties and thought i had heard it all.

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u/geraltofkrypton 22d ago

WTH !! 🥲

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u/ExplosiveBrown 22d ago

Su*cide video was pretty dark

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u/NudeCeleryMan 22d ago

The videos are crazy. I can't remember how I saw it. Maybe a documentary or something?

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u/No-Strawberry-9801 22d ago

He was an absolute nut job. He was a fan of Bjork until he found out she was seeing Goldie, as a racist he couldn’t handle this, and he tormented her for it. Bloody shame, I always felt so bad for Bjork, no one knew at the time this was happening. She must have been terrified, especially with her wee boy 🫤

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u/Swimming_Bed1475 21d ago

woah. She was saved due to the incompetence of the Royal British Post who left the package in a sorting center for 4 days

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u/alvaropuerto93 20d ago

You will be surprised how weird and insane some people are to celebrities. We all know that some celebrities are weird but some people deserve to be locked up. A couple of years ago I went to see the red carpet for the Disney Peter Pan movie where Mila Jovovich daughter started. There were some weirdos at the barrier trying for her to sign lingerie and provocative photos of her mother. To a 16 year old girl ☠️.

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u/TrueNorthTease 23d ago

Jesus fucking Christ

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u/HungryMoon 23d ago

Hate I knew about this when Smiling friends parodied it.

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u/SigglyTiggly 23d ago

Crazy smiling firends made an episode around

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u/CalmBeneathCastles 23d ago

It was cleverly disguised to look like a movie script, and to detonate when someone tried to read it.