"The bear, which only weighed about 175 pounds itself, ate some of the cocaine and died within about 20 minutes.... The chief medical examiner at the Georgia State Crime Lab later estimated the bear had absorbed about 3 or 4 grams of cocaine into its bloodstream at the time of its death. After about a week, a local hunter, never identified, found the bear and told his friends about it, but didn’t report it to the authorities.... On the morning of Sept. 11, 1985, Fred M. Myers of Knoxville, Tennessee, found a dead man in his driveway, sprawled out on his back over an unopened parachute, seemingly fine except for a trickle of dried blood from each nostril. Myers later remembered hearing a crash around midnight the night before. The dead man was wearing a bulletproof vest and night vision goggles and carried two different pistols, ammunition, a stiletto, freeze-dried food, six Krugerrands, $4,500 cash, IDs in multiple names, a membership card to the Miami Jockey Club, and several inspirational epigrams, one of which read, 'There is only one tactical principle not subject to change: It is to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.' He also had a duffel bag with about 75 pounds of cocaine, all of which was recovered...."
From "They’re Making a Movie About the Cocaine Bear! Wait, What?/Here is the true story of the cocaine bear" (Slate).
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I love the story of Pablo Escobear! Thats awesome.
A tragic waste of good cocaine.
Ah. So your synopsis leaves out the dead guy was a cop turned smuggler. Nice touch that. (Fixed spelling)
Elizabeth Banks was born in the same hospital as me...
Man, coke was the bees knees in the 80s. Remember all that stuff about how pointless it was for the US to be involved in a drug war?
Totally not related: Columbia is a relatively stable county nowadays.
A movie role for Hunter Biden.
I knew the guy who was allegedly on the plane with Thornton. Took martial arts lessons under him for a couple of years.
And Becky Sharp got away! Thackeray could've written the screenplay.
A movie role for Hunter Biden.
More like Hunter S Thompson.
rehajm,
"Elizabeth Banks was born in the same hospital as me..."
Guess we're from the same town. Funny. I knew her slightly in high school, but your comment made me check that she was born there.
In 67-68 in various anti-drug lectures I must have heard 20 times about an elephant that was fed some LSD and keeled over dead.
Nobody made a movie about him (Her?)
Perhaps because elephants are republican?
John Henry
Guess we're from the same town
Cool!
"Brother Bear: My life as a Berenstain child star and my journey past addiction."
A new bestseller by Stan and Jan Berenstain.
Why is it regarded as significant that he "carried two different pistols"? Roy Rogers carried two pistols, but they were the same. James Bond carried one pistol.
the blue grass gang, that was an arc on justified, it was either the senior crowder or givens who were caught up in it,
Wasn’t that part of a recurring plot line in “Justified?” (Not the bear-the dead parachute guy. I think the plot was that the guy who got away was living under a fake name and was the sheriff of a hill county. Or something)
Sad. No one had told the bear to 'Just say no to drugs'. :-(
Great minds, narciso! But I think it was Sheriff Shelby who the feds thought was the dead parachute guy.
Wasn’t that part of a recurring plot line in “Justified?”
You beat me to it. I remember that tangled plot also.
The first two and the last season of Justified were absolutely terrific. And Nick Searcy being in it is quite the bonus.
If by 'black bear' you really mean Barrack Obama, and by 'Georgia' you really mean Hawaii, then sure, I can see that...
Sounds like the perfect Cohen brothers' movie : )
Would watch.
I knew guys in the '80s who had access to that stuff and were always offering.
But I'd seen too many people doing weird things because of it.
It was an easy 'No.'
Besides, in CA we were more smokers than snorters.
see thats a show they've shunted off to hulu, when its better than most of the drek, we see now,
Confusingly written.
Inasmuch as the September bag was found first, it is the November bag that is the "also," not the earlier one.
Illegal immigrants are forced to become drug mules for the cartels, but that is not as amusing as a self-destructive parachutist coke dealer and a dead bear.
Dewey Crowe and the Bennett family were great criminal characters. As was Raylon's dad.
Ever eat a bag of cocaine? Some parts are edible.
Whatever happened to cocaine and/or crack? It was the "Epidemic" that was destroying the nation. The CIA was accused of waging war on the black community by importing it. Sinister plots were suggested. Massive sentences handed out to drug dealers. chat shows chatted about it. we have lifetime movies of the week.
and now, its like cocaine doesn't exist. Or is it that the druggies have moved on to heroin and meth? Or is it no one cares as long as there aren't shoot outs in the streets?
"Ever eat a bag of cocaine?"
Yes, but it was labeled 'Cool Ranch Doritos.'
"Whatever happened to cocaine and/or crack?"
It will make a comeback once everyone gets their government walking around money.
there's a series on the third season, snowfall, on that subject, the colombian cartels that were tamed by uribe, were supplanted by the sun cartel, that's venezuelan military and they in turn have ties to sinaloa and the new generation in mexico,
Justified was one of those shows I binge-watched two-three shows at a time.
Been slow-watching Longmire, after a gap of a few years when it moved from regular cable to some pay channel. In the last episode, retired sheriff RoboCop was discovered to have committed murder and he killed himself rather than be arrested. Starbuck was suspected for a while when she disappeared during the time of the murder.
Confusingly written.
The bear story is pretty obviously bullshit (they're marketing some new movie, correct?), what with the anonymous "medical examiner" and the bear's stomach which "was literally packed to the brim with cocaine". Cocaine, has an obnoxious alkaloid taste and, even at 90+% pure, smells like "chemicals", not something a bear would ingest without having developed and acquired taste.
mockturtle said...
Sad. No one had told the bear to 'Just say no to drugs'. :-(
I once saw 'Just Say No To Drugs' printed on a urinal mat. I wondered what incentive the company that made the urinal mat had to print the message on it. If you could go to every 12-step program meeting in the country you're never once going to see some guy get up and say; "I was a stone hardcore junkie until I took a whizz at Burger King that time and saw 'Just Say No' printed on the urinal mat! I realized, right then, that I didn't have to be a slave to that shit anymore!".
Whatever happened to cocaine and/or crack?
A friend of mine made a living off selling cocaine ("no crack smoking!") for about 25 years, until he died of liver damage from alcohol about 12 years ago, and he never lacked for customers during that time.
I guess its role as a media "moral panic" has been replaced by the boring "#metoo" trivia and the stupid "systemic racism" nonsense.
@rcocean:
Whatever happened to cocaine and/or crack? It was the "Epidemic" that was destroying the nation...and now, its like cocaine doesn't exist. Or is it that the druggies have moved on to heroin and meth? Or is it no one cares as long as there aren't shoot outs in the streets?
I think your last point is probably the correct one. I think the "crack epidemic" mostly tracked the black crime epidemic that peaked in the early 90s before entering its long period of decline. Compare Chris Rock's depiction of a crackhead in New Jack City in 1991 to Anthony Johnson's in Friday from 1995 and then to Dave Chappelle's character Tyrone Biggins in the aughts.
As for cocaine versus crack, I defer to the immortal words of Ms. Houston: "First of all, let's get one thing straight. Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Crack is whack."
seemingly fine except for a trickle of dried blood from each nostril
The guy fell from 7,000 feet; one would think he'd be a bit less intact.
In my head I hear Maxwell Smart saying: "missed it by that much".
you would think, another story arc in the 80s on wiseguy, that of mel proffitt was probably inspired by barry seal, I suspected back then kevin spacey was too much on point as a sociopath, his acting was more often when he played a nice guy, in pay it forward,
@narciso:
I suspected back then kevin spacey was too much on point as a sociopath
I first saw Spacey in Glengarry Glen Ross, and I can remember intensely hating his character, but then I loved him in The Ref and was a big fan of The Usual Suspects and L.A. Confidential. Gossip about Spacey and Bryan Singer was already going around at the time, and it instantly sounded credible. I fucking hated American Beauty, Pay It Forward, and K-PAX. By the end of The Life of David Gale, the sight of Spacey made me nauseated.
Justified was one great TV series.
J. Farmer,
Ever see Margin Call? By far the most recent excellent Kevin Spacey performance in my opinion. He reminded me why I used to think he was excellent.
Facts are stranger than fiction
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/gupta-stock-chemical-company-mexican-cartels-heroin
He was also the lesser villain in baby driver, as the head of the bankrobber crew
Blogger boatbuilder said...
Dewey Crowe and the Bennett family were great criminal characters. As was Raylon's dad.
I liked Justified, but I hated the Raylon's dad character, played by a mostly stage actor named Raymond Barry. Barry looked like a dinner theater actor, not a vicious hillbilly organized crime guy, and his accent was all over the map.
Does a bear get hi in the woods?
Hes yale drama schooled i remember back to when he was on the x files as mulders patron senator matheson
"played by a mostly stage actor named Raymond Barry."
Who I remember mainly as Captain Yardley in Falling Down. "I never liked you. You know why? You don't curse. I don't trust a man who doesn't curse."
Fernandinande: I’ve never known a bear that refused to eat used cat litter, so, respectfully, you may be wrong about this.
I don’t know whether your observation or my observation Is objectively the worse one. In any case, it’s about time someone made a sequel combining Walking Tall and Grizzly Man.
rcocean,
and now, its like cocaine doesn't exist. Or is it that the druggies have moved on to heroin and meth? Or is it no one cares as long as there aren't shoot outs in the streets?
What makes you think that there aren't any longer shootouts in the streets? Look at Chicago. Honestly, there's a St. Valentine's Day Massacre practically every weekend now. Makes me wonder why one day with, what was it, twelve dead? in the early 1930s still merits inclusion in HS history textbooks.
Probably as much heroine as anything else, seeing where the supply is coming from.
Its all a matter of perspective
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/kendall/article231644003.html
I guarantee this movie will not be as good as my “Frankenstein, Part II.”
“Margin Call” was very good.
Cokey Bear says only YOU can [insert joke]
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