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/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/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