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The cocaine had been dropped by a group of drug smugglers in the wilderness in Tennessee, United States. The bear was found dead in northern Georgia and was stuffed and displayed at a mall in Kentucky. It inspired the 2023 comedy thriller film Cocaine Bear, [5] as well as the 2023 documentary film Cocaine Bear: The True Story. [6]
Cocaine Bear (released as Crazy Bear in some countries) is a 2023 American comedy horror film directed by Elizabeth Banks and written by Jimmy Warden. [6] It is loosely inspired by the true story of the "Cocaine Bear", an American black bear that ingested several kilograms of a bag containing about 75 lb (34 kg) of lost cocaine. [7]
Cocaine Bear: 1985: A 175-kilogram (386 lb) American black bear died in Georgia in 1985 after overdosing on cocaine. The cocaine had been dumped from an airplane piloted by Andrew C. Thornton II, a former narcotics officer turned convicted drug smuggler. [13] It inspired the 2023 film Cocaine Bear. [14] Deer 14 August 1987
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The 175-pound black bear was found next to a duffel bag that had once been filled with more than 70 pounds of cocaine before it was hurled from a drug smuggler’s plane.
Rumors have long circulated that the bear ate all 40 containers worth of cocaine, which would be about 35 pounds. That’s about as far as the story of the Cocaine Bear goes in real life.
The beginning of episode one features a flashback to 1983 in which a man falls to his death, parachute still attached, with bricks of cocaine scattered around his body. The bag that had carried the cocaine becomes the focus of a mystery roughly 30 years later. The story also inspired the film Cocaine Bear, released in February 2023. [11]
ICYMI, 'Cocaine Bear' is the latest horror-comedy movie from M3GAN director Elizabeth Banks. The wild tale is loosely based on a true story. Here's what's fact and what's fiction about 'Cocaine Bear'.