Yes, ‘Cocaine Bear’ Was Real. Here’s the Story.
What would happen if a giant bear swallowed a large amount of cocaine?
Directed by Elizabeth Banks, the bear transforms into a bloodthirsty beast after gorging itself on cocaine. The film was a huge success, grossing over $57 million worldwide. But there is a true story behind the film.
Nearly 40 years after a 175-pound black bear found and ingested cocaine in a Georgia forest, the drug binge has inspired a movie.
The film was based on a 1985 incident involving a 200-pound American black bear that was found dead from an overdose in a Georgia forest.
The real story begins with a man named Andrew Carter Thornton- Born in 1944, he was the son of a prominent Kentucky horse breeder and became an expert paratrooper in the U.S. Army.
Thornton left the Army in 1965 and joined the Lexington Police Drug Squad. But Thornton soon became more interested in selling drugs than cracking down on them.
Then, in September 1985, Thornton took to the skies for what would be his last drug smuggling mission, jumping out of a plane over Knoxville, Tennessee, with a duffel bag containing $15 million in cocaine. He died when his parachute failed.
But though Thornton’s life was over, his legacy was not. Two months after the smuggler’s death, a Georgia hunter found a dead bear surrounded by the remains of a duffel bag investigators would later deem to be Thornton’s. A medical examiner concluded the 200-pound bear had died of acute cocaine intoxication after ingesting about three to four grams of cocaine. “It’s enough to kill anybody,” the investigator told reporters.
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