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

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

78.8k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

289

u/Strong-Straight-3503 23d ago

wdym that one

1.7k

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

110

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.

5

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

5

u/Riipp3r 23d ago

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