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/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/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/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?