Recently, a limited-level thriller comedy movie that will be released next year has aroused the discussion of many foreign netizens.
The movie is called "Cocaine Bear," and the trailer was just announced today.
The film is based on a true event in September 1985.
The story takes place in Georgia, USA, and the protagonist is a large black bear weighing 175 pounds.
In the film, the big black bear stumbles upon a bag dropped from a drug dealer's plane and devours a full 70 pounds of cocaine inside.
Under the influence of drugs, the black bear completely ran away and began to frantically attack the residents of the nearby town. The whole film is physically flying and quite bloody and violent.
In reality, however, the bear didn't actually attack humans.
It did take a lot of drugs, but died three months later. When it was found, there were dozens of bags next to the body.
The medical examiner later detected a host of diseases in the hapless black bear, including cerebral hemorrhage, respiratory failure, high fever, kidney failure, heart failure and stroke...
After that incident, the bear became famous in the local area.
The gimmick of "wild beasts devouring human drugs" naturally attracted all the attention of onlookers on this matter.
As a result, few people care about the origin of drugs and the identity of drug dealers.
But in fact, if you extend this story a little further, the experience of drug owners may be far more bizarre than that of black bears.
In the story, the owner of this large bag of drugs is named Andrew Carter Thornton II.
Born in 1944, he grew up in Lexington, north-central Kentucky, where his family ran a horse farm and made a good living.
But Thornton did not follow the path to high society like other children from wealthy families, but chose to enlist in the army.
He studied at the prestigious Sewanee Military Academy in Tennessee. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Army and became a paratrooper.
During his service, Thornton received the Purple Heart medal for his outstanding performance on the battlefield.
This is the U.S. military's medal of honor, awarded to soldiers who contributed to the war or were wounded in the war.
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After being discharged with honors, Thornton returned to his hometown of Lexington, where he worked as a police officer and joined the Anti-Narcotics Task Force from 1970 to 1973 as a drug officer for nine years.
During this time, he worked on drug-related cases almost every week.
At the same time, Thornton attended the University of Kentucky Law School.
He worked on drug research every day and went to law school at night to attend evening school, eventually earning a doctorate in law.
With sufficient legal knowledge, Thornton resigned from the police force in 1977 and began a law-related career in Lexington.
Those amazing resumes in the past made him once the object of great admiration of those around him.
In the eyes of his colleagues, Thornton has a 007-like style, like an adventurer.
To his wife, he was both a gentle and loving husband and a disciplined warrior with high standards of faith and morality.
To his friends, he is confident, loyal, wise, charismatic, and even if he likes to play pranks sometimes, he is certainly a decent person.
However, it is such a highly rated model figure, but he has embarked on an unexpected crooked road...
Four years after quitting his police job, Thornton got into trouble in California.
He was accused of collaborating with others to steal military weapons and conspiring to smuggle 1,000 pounds of marijuana into the United States...
Such a good anti-drug police officer finally embarked on the road of drug trafficking, you can imagine the impact of this news.
Thornton was later sentenced to six months in prison, fined $500, suspended for five years and revoked his bar on one count of minor drug charges.
At the time, however, the authorities did not find any evidence to further establish his involvement with the drug cartels. Thornton has also been tough-mouthed and has refused to plead guilty.
Later, it was not until the day of his unexpected tragic death that all his crimes were revealed to the world.
On the morning of September 11, 1985, Thornton's body was found.
He was wearing khaki clothes and a bulletproof vest, black gloves and night-vision goggles, and the blood at the corners of his mouth had long since dried.
Authorities investigating the scene of death found that Thornton was carrying a number of things, including a Browning 9mm automatic pistol, a sharp knife, $4,500 in cash, a compass, altimeter, rations and vitamins, two ID cards with different names, and survival equipment such as plane keys.
He also had three notes in his pocket, one of which read: "Only one tactical principle will not change." That is, inflicting maximum damage, death and destruction on the enemy in the shortest possible time. ”
Remarkably, the duffel bag next to Thornton also contained 34 bundles of football-sized cocaine, weighing a total of about 70 pounds, which were worth about $15 million (about 106.3 million yuan) at the time.
In addition to these, police also found a crashed plane not far from his body.
After an autopsy, Thornton's time of death was judged to be 6 to 8 hours before the body was found.
The cause of death was determined to be accidental death in the process of drug smuggling.
On the day of the incident, he was carrying smuggled drugs and wanted to fly away, but while flying over Georgia, he dropped a large bag of cocaine from the plane to retrieve it later.
He himself then jumped from the plane, but unexpectedly there was a problem with the parachute, so he fell directly to his death.
However, there are also different speculations about this statement.
Because judging from the investigation records at the time, Thornton's death was a bit out of the ordinary.
In the record, he did not open the main parachute, but the secondary parachute. Judging from the location of the main parachute, Thornton should have lost the main parachute during the descent.
However, quality testing of the parachutes showed that neither parachute had any defects.
Coupled with the fact that Thornton himself is a paratrooper, with his excellent skydiving strength and rich experience, he should not make such mistakes. Some speculated that he may have died of murder. Of course, this claim has not been confirmed.
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Later, some analysts said that it may be that during the skydiving, his head accidentally hit the tail of the aircraft and fell into a coma, so he failed to open the parachute in time. In short, there were many opinions for a while.
But regardless of the cause of death, the drugs were enough to prove Thornton's collusion with the drug cartels.
Federal authorities concluded that the military weapons he had previously suspected of stealing were the capital in exchange for drugs.
Later, the investigation department followed the vine and found that Thornton had become a drug dealer between the United States and Colombia since the early 80s.
He often flew small planes to and from South America to sell marijuana and cocaine.
In addition, he joined a drug cartel called The Company. The group operates primarily in Kentucky, an area Thornton is familiar with.
With his combat skills and anti-drug experience accumulated as a police officer, he became a core member of the group. While making a lot of money, he also walked step by step towards the abyss of depravity.
This once incomparably excellent policeman strangely took a crooked road and died meaninglessly.
The cocaine he left behind was mistaken for a delicacy by the black bear, and the accident led to the death of this innocent beast...
The black bear was specimend after his death and is now on display at an entertainment mall in Lexington.
Many people came from all over the world to see this beast with their own eyes.
Some media have described it as "notorious" as if it were a symbol of greed.
But now it seems that the bear is more like a victim of greed.
Because what really killed it was another human being who was confused by money and went astray...