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- The drug-filled bags fell into a Georgia national park and were ripped into by a bear. But unlike the movie version, the coked-up creature never killed anybody: Its remains were found after dying of an overdose – surrounded by 40 open containers with traces of cocaine in them.
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On December 23, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation reported finding a dead black bear that had eaten a large amount of the cocaine from the jettisoned containers and suffered the black bear equivalent of a drug overdose.
Dec 1, 2022 · He was found dead the morning of Sept. 11, 1985, in the backyard of a house in Knoxville, Tenn., wearing a parachute and Gucci loafers. He also had several weapons and a bag containing about 35...
- Amanda Holpuch
- You're Telling Me There Really Was A Bear Who Did Cocaine?
- How Much Cocaine Are We Talking About Here?
- And Then The Bear Went on A Murderous Rampage?
- What Else Do We Know About Thornton?
- Please Tell Me That, Despite All of This, There's A Happy Ending For The Bear?
Yes. Our story starts on December 22, 1985, in the mountain town of Blue Ridge in northern Georgia. Investigators were initially combing the forest for cocaine dropped by an airborne drug smuggler (more on him later) when they found a 79kg black bear had overdosed after stumbling upon a duffel bag full of the drug first. Unsurprisingly, cocaine bea...
A lot. The Times reported that the bear had been found among "40 opened plastic containers with traces of cocaine". The Associated Press wrote that each of the 40 packages was believed to have contained 1 kilogram of cocaine and was "valued at as much as $20 million" at the time. Dr Kenneth Alonso, the state's chief medical examiner, said an autops...
No, thankfully. That's where the creators behind Cocaine Bear used some creative license. "All of the characters are made up, other than Andrew Thornton who opens the movie," director Elizabeth Banks told ABC News Breakfast. "It presents the 24 hours after that bear ingested cocaine and what would have happened if it came across a bunch of people i...
Andrew Thornton fell in Knoxville an hour before an unmanned Cessna aeroplane crashed into a mountain in North Carolina, AP reported. A key bearing the same identification as the plane was found in his pocket. Clothes, maps of Jamaica and a pilot's logbook bearing the Cessna's number were found days later in Butts County, about 48 kilometres south ...
That depends on your opinions on taxidermy. It's said that the bear is currently on display at the Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall in Lexington. In a 2015 blog post, the mall details how it tracked down the whereabouts of the bear after contacting the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The mall believes they possess the real deal due to "tell-tale" sc...
- Jessica Riga
Mar 13, 2023 · There’s a true story behind ‘Cocaine Bear’—and it’s no laughing matter. Unlike the movie, the real-life cocaine bear didn't go on a coke-fueled rampage, but it did consume a fatal amount of...
Feb 29, 2024 · Tragically, Pablo Eskobear Overdosed In Real Life. Those looking to see the real bear that Cocaine Bear 's true story is based on can find it in Kentucky For Kentucky Fun Mall. The true story of Cocaine Bear reveals a very different fate for the animal than what the movie shows.
- Elizabeth Banks
- Ray Liotta
Feb 24, 2023 · The movie dramatizes what happened when a bear ate cocaine that drug smuggler Andrew Thornton dropped from a plane. Here’s what to know about the real criminal.
Feb 28, 2023 · W hen Georgia investigators stumbled across the infamous Cocaine Bear in 1985 its cause of death was unmistakable. The 175-pound black bear was found next to a duffel bag that had once been...
