‘Cocaine Bear’ back from the dead — to officiate wedding

“By the powder ingested in me … “

The actual-life taxidermied animal that impressed the film “Cocaine Bear” will officiate a Kentucky couple’s marriage ceremony Monday on the Enjoyable Mall Museum in Lexington.

“Y’all are cordially invited,” wrote the Kentucky For Kentucky retailer, the place the bear is on show, in a digital invitation posted Friday to social media.

“Cocaine Bear presides over and affirms the union of Alexandra & Amanda on today: Monday, March the twenty seventh, 12 pm,” the announcement continued. “Costume up, be a part of us and want the couple effectively,” it added within the caption.

The Publish has contacted Kentucky For Kentucky for remark.

This shall be Cocaine Bear’s first marriage ceremony ceremony, the museum’s co-founder, Griffin VanMeter, told Roadside America final month.

“So long as you are feeling that the particular person marrying you — like Cocaine Bear — has the authority, then that marriage could be binding right here in Kentucky.”

The precise coke-ingesting black bear, also called Pablo Escobear, died from a cocaine overdose in 1985 after drug vendor Andrew Thornton dropped 88 kilos of the drug — in three duffel baggage — from an airplane over close to Blairsville, Georgia. 

He was then stuffed and shopped round to reveals in Georgia, Tennessee, and Nevada earlier than attracting vacationers to The Bluegrass State, the place he’s been since 2015.

The story of the cocaine bear has as soon as once more gained relevance because the Elizabeth Banks-directed, R-rated movie of the identical title hit theaters on Feb. 24.

Loosely based mostly on real-life occasions, the film reveals the CGI animal surviving and turning into an addict, prepared to kill anybody who will get in her approach.

The film — which has grossed over $78 million worldwide — follows an ensemble of locals, vacationers, criminals and police gives who come collectively to attempt to survive the bear’s drug-fueled frenzy.

After the movie got here out, although, some “woke” viewers complained the brand new movie was “encouraging drug use” and “not appropriate for teenagers.”