psychoceramics: CNN - Florida man sent explosive package to rock singer - Sept. 17, 1996

["Andrew C. Bulhak" <acb @ discordia.null.org>]

Not sure if this person qualifies as a kook, but nonetheless this is
somewhat weird...

 -- acb

http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9609/17/bjork.wir/index.html

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                     Florida man sent explosive package to rock singer

                     September 17, 1996
                     Web posted at: 8:40 p.m. EDT

                     HOLLYWOOD, Florida (Reuter) - A Florida man built
                     an explosive device designed to spray sulfuric
                     acid, and mailed the explosive package to
                     alternative rock singer Bjork, police said
                     Tuesday. Then the man videotaped his own suicide.

                     The device, apparently intended to shower acid on
                     Icelandic singer Bjork Gudmonsdottir, was located
                     at a post office in London early on Tuesday and
                     detonated without incident, police said.

                     The body of Ricardo Lopez, 21, was found on the
                     floor of his Hollywood apartment on Monday after
                     neighbors reported a foul odor. He had shot
                     himself in the head with a .38 caliber revolver,
                     police said.

                     Investigators said an 8 mm video camera on a
                     tripod was pointed at the body and 11 video tapes
                     were found, including one labeled "Last Day -
                     Ricardo Lopez."

                     The videos showed Lopez "meticulously"
                     constructing a chemical propulsion device and also
                     showed him killing himself, police said.

                     "Apparently he was obsessed with alternative rock
                     singer Bjork Gudmonsdottir, and that led to his
                     creating a device that he was going to mail to her
                     -- and in fact did mail to her," said Hollywood
                     Police spokesman Todd DeAngelis. "She was going to
                     open it and presumably be harmed by that."

                     Gudmonsdottir, who is known by the single name
                     Bjork, is former lead singer for the Sugar Cubes,
                     and now performs solo.

                     Florida investigators learned the address where
                     the device had been sent by viewing the
                     videotapes. They contacted Scotland Yard which
                     tracked down the package at a post office in south
                     London, said DeAngelis.

                     Police said they were continuing their
                     investigation to determine if Lopez might have
                     mailed other devices, but it appeared his sole
                     intent was to harm Gudmonsdottir.

                     After viewing the video showing Lopez building the
                     device, police evacuated his apartment complex and
                     surrounding businesses for four hours on Monday
                     while they searched his apartment. They found and
                     confiscated what they called "questionable"
                     material but did not find an explosive device,
                     they said.

                     Copyright 1996 Reuters Limited. All rights
                     reserved.

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