The movie trailer. cocaine bear promises a film as wild as its title. It is, as the packaging says, the story of a bear who takes cocaine and gets so angry that you don’t want to see him go into a huge and potentially violent beast. Of course, the only thing crazier than the premise of cocaine bear is that the whole story really happened, sort of.
Yes, once upon a time there was a real coke addict bear. The trailer for the film says it was inspired by true events and it certainly is. While most of the film’s ultra-violent and bloody story is fiction, the bear getting high on cocaine actually happened.
The True Story of the Cocaine Bear
As it sums up New York Times , the real events took place in December 1985. A convicted drug dealer named Andrew Thornton was apparently flying over the Georgia-Tennessee border when a quantity of cocaine fell from the plane. Thornton died in an apparent accident while skydiving with too heavy a load. More than 300 pounds of cocaine were found during an extensive search of the area surrounding Thornton’s body and the crashed plane he was on. It was during this search that the bear’s body was found. He had been dead for about three months at the time.
The black bear that ingested the cocaine was found alone in the mountains of Fannin County, Georgia, after it died of an overdose, surrounded by 40 plastic containers that showed traces of cocaine. An autopsy performed found three to four grams of cocaine in the bear’s blood. So there was no cocaine bear rampage, that’s the whole making of the film. In the end, it’s a tragic death for Cocaine Bear.
What happened to the cocaine bear?
Interestingly, the cocaine bear story apparently doesn’t end there. Though not independently verified, a Kentucky mall he claims to be in possession of the dissected remains cocaine bear. Apparently the coroner who performed the autopsy realized that the bear’s body was in cosmetic condition, despite suffering from every possible form of organ failure after being drugged with cocaine, so he contacted a friend who practiced taxidermy.
The bear was delivered to the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, where it was displayed, but with no apparent reference to how the bear got there. According to reports, in the early 1990s the bear was stored, where it disappeared.
A Nashville-area workhouse owner says he had tomado posesión del oso (según los informe, tenía otros artículos robados de l’almacenamiento de CRRA at this time) and that he sold the oso to country singer Waylon Jennings , quien if I give it to a friend. it was later auctioned off. Eventually, the mall spotted the bear and the mall managed to take possession of it of this
It’s certainly far from perfectly clear whether this is the real cocaine bear, but for an animal that died in such a bizarre way, its equally bizarre afterlife would be entirely fitting. The only thing that could be more appropriate would be sheer insanity. cocaine bear violent comedy that assumes what might have happened if the bear had survived and run amok. See everything we know about him. cocaine bear film before its release next month.
Source: Cinemablend
