The Real Story Behind the Legend of "Cocaine Bear"  #foryou #truestory #bear #foryoupage
Channel: Brain Wired Media
Date: 2023-02-25

"Cocaine Bear" features severed limbs, bloody victims, and gory mayhem in theaters.

But, Pablo Eskobear, the Cocaine Bear, has a different story.

Jimmy Warden wrote Banks's screenplay after finding a dead bear in Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest in 1985.

A parachute accident killed cocaine smuggler Andrew Thornton in September 1985.

Thorton threw some of the 880 pounds of cocaine out of the plane and parachuted with the remainder because he felt the federal authorities was following him. His plan failed.

On September 11, 1985, Thorton died. He was found in a Knoxville driveway wearing Gucci loafers and carrying $15 million worth of cocaine.

Bears appeared four months later.

"A 175-pound black bear died of a cocaine overdose after discovering a stockpile of the stimulant," the New York Times reported in December 1985.

Chattahoochee National Forest found the dead bear.

According to a United Press International story in The Times, Andrew Thornton, a convicted drug smuggler who died on September 11 in Knoxville, Tennessee, was parachuting with an abnormally heavy cargo when he dropped the cocaine.

On Friday, the authorities found the bear and 40 unsealed plastic vials with cocaine in northern Georgia.

AP quoted Georgia's top medical examiner, Dr. Kenneth Alonso.

The bear's autopsy revealed three to four grams of cocaine in its circulation.

According to legend, the bear ate all 40 vials of cocaine, or 35 pounds.

The Cocaine Bear story ends here. Unlike the new Universal Pictures-backed horror comedy, no bear-related victims or limbs were found in the forest.

Screenwriter Jimmy Warden told Variety that the film is "my warped dream of what I wish truly transpired after the bear drank so much cocaine."

Banks told Variety that she directed "Cocaine Bear" to give the bear a voice. "Deep pity" for the animal followed reading the 1985 story.

"It was really terrible up that this bear was pulled into a botched drug deal and killed," Banks said. This film may be the bear's retaliation.

"Cocaine Bear" is in theaters nationwide.

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