{"id":82397,"date":"2023-01-04T09:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T14:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=82397"},"modified":"2023-01-04T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T14:25:14","slug":"the-upcoming-movie-cocaine-bear-is-based-on-a-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/the-upcoming-movie-cocaine-bear-is-based-on-a-true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Upcoming Movie &#8216;Cocaine Bear&#8217; Is Based On A True Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82402\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/maxresdefault-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/maxresdefault-3.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/maxresdefault-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/maxresdefault-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/maxresdefault-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/maxresdefault-3-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The movie &#8216;Cocaine Bear&#8217; is set to be released on February 24th and while the newly released trailer looks absolutely crazy &#8211; a bear ingesting a ton of cocaine and going on a rampage terrorizing locals &#8211; it isn&#8217;t that far fetched. In fact, it isn&#8217;t far fetched at all as it&#8217;s based on a true story!<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1985 a black bear roaming the Georgia forest found a duffel bag full of cocaine &#8211; and he ate it &#8211; all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cocaine Bear | Official Trailer [HD]\" width=\"1060\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DuWEEKeJLMI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A United Press International item on the cocaine bear appeared in The New York Times in December 1985.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-hy5nwo e11si9ry2\" data-testid=\"placeholder\">\n<div class=\"css-tux0zj e11si9ry3\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-overlay\">\n<div class=\"css-1wt3a9o e11si9ry4\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82398\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/oakImage-1669903350691-superJumbo.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1160\" height=\"774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/oakImage-1669903350691-superJumbo.webp 1160w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/oakImage-1669903350691-superJumbo-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/oakImage-1669903350691-superJumbo-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/oakImage-1669903350691-superJumbo-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe cocaine was apparently dropped from a plane piloted by Andrew Thornton, a convicted drug smuggler who died Sept. 11 in Knoxville, Tenn., because he was carrying too heavy a load while parachuting,\u201d U.P.I. reported. \u201cThe bureau said the bear was found Friday in northern Georgia among 40 opened plastic containers with traces of cocaine.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The bear was eventually found dead in the mountains of Fannin County, Ga., just south of the Tennessee border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s nothing left but bones and a big hide,\u201d Gary Garner of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation\u00a0told The Associated Press\u00a0at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Kenneth Alonso, the state\u2019s chief medical examiner at the time, said after an autopsy in December 1985 that the bear ingested more than four grams of cocaine and possibly a lot more!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie &#8216;Cocaine Bear&#8217; is set to be released on February 24th and while the newly released trailer looks absolutely crazy &#8211; a bear ingesting a ton of cocaine and going on a rampage terrorizing locals &#8211; it isn&#8217;t that far fetched. In fact, it isn&#8217;t far fetched at all as it&#8217;s based on a true story! Back in 1985 a black bear roaming the Georgia forest found a duffel bag full of cocaine &#8211; and he ate it &#8211; all. A United Press International item on the cocaine bear appeared in The New York Times in December 1985. \u201cThe <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3866,"featured_media":82402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[21727,19599,17469,8980,33137,9174,9577,9047],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82403,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82397\/revisions\/82403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82397"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=82397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}