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Only in Theaters February 24th. https://www.cocainebear.movie/ Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug ... On a rampage for blow and blood. Meet #CocaineBear.
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Dec 1, 2022 · The first trailer for the Universal Pictures film “Cocaine Bear” was released Wednesday, racking up over 12 million views in less than 24 hours on Twitter. WATE's Kristen Gallant spoke to the...
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Dec 7, 2022 · The real Cocaine Bear died in 1985 after ingesting almost 80 pounds of cocaine that had been accidentally dropped in the forest by Andrew Thorton II. Inside Edition Digital has more.
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- 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...
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Feb 23, 2023 · Cocaine Bear: Real-Life Agent Recalls Surreal 1985 Case, and One Even Crazier. Fran Wiley, a retired Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent, recalls the bear who overdosed on cocaine...
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- Julie Miller
Feb 24, 2023 · Pablo Escobear, as she became known, was a real-life bear who consumed a tremendous amount of cocaine that had been ditched by a drug smuggler in the Georgia wilderness.
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Sep 28, 2023 · Yes, Cocaine Bear is based on the true story of a bear who ate way too much cocaine. Everything you need to know about the real story behind Elizabeth Banks' wild action-comedy.
