"Cocaine Bear" is the tale of what happens when an apex predator like a bear, gets high on cocaine, and goes wild as it searches for more. More than 70 pounds of cocaine was eaten by a bear, which promptly went out of its mind before it died. It was found, all right - by a black bear. A black bear ingested 70 pounds of cocaine in the upcoming comedy-horror film "Cocaine Bear," opening in theaters on February 24. In the mid-1980s, a drug runner tossed hundreds of pounds of cocaine out of a plane over the southern Appalachian mountains - presumably with the thought of it being found later. "This bear is gonna f- some people up," Banks said.
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The film features the late Ray Liotta in his last role before he passed away, as well as actors Keri Russell, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Christian Convery-Jennings, Alden Ehrenreich, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.(WUPA) - Director Elizabeth Banks describes the upcoming Universal Pictures movie "Cocaine Bear" as a comedy inside of a horror film. The bear continued to exchange hands, traveling to Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, before eventually being bought by the mall, claims the blog. Eventually the bear made its way to a pawnshop, where it was bought by country music star Waylon Jennings. The Georgia medical examiner who performed the bear's autopsy contacted a taxidermist to stuff the bear, then donated it to the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. The Cocaine Bear, now shown at the Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall, was a 175-pound black bear from Chattahoochee National Forest that died after eating about 75 pounds of cocaine that was. In a blog, the mall says the taxidermied bear passed through many hands before coming to Kentucky. The Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall claims to have the bear's stuffed remains on display, complete with a name tag offering the bear the nickname "Pablo EskoBear." "There's nothing left but bones and a big hide," he added.īut even after its narcotic-fueled death, the bear has continued to have a striking legacy. "The bear got to it before we could, and he tore the duffel bag open, got him some cocaine and OD'd (overdosed)," Garner said, according to the AP at the time. It was valued at $2 million, the AP reported. It's unclear from the AP report exactly how much cocaine the bear consumed - but the duffel bag would have originally contained around 88 pounds of the powerful drug.
The black bear was found dead near a duffel bag and 40 packages of cocaine, ripped open and scattered over the hillside.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation officers were searching for the dead smuggler's cocaine parcels when they found the bear, says the AP. In real life, the story has a less sensational ending: The bear was found dead in Chattahoochee National Forest after overdosing.Ī duffel bag of cocaine was dropped from a small plane into the mountains of Georgia by Andrew Thornton, who died after parachuting from the plane, according to reporting at the time by The Associated Press. Thornton's sordid life as a police officer and drug dealer has been documented in books like "The Blue Grass Conspiracy." In the film, the bear goes on a cocaine-fueled killing spree after its drug binge. The film, which will be released in February 2023, was directed and coproduced by Elizabeth Banks.
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