Cocaine Bear to Officiate Kentucky Couple’s Wedding

There’s a bear-y particular ceremony on deck in Kentucky … the place the true animal inspiration behind the “Cocaine Bear” film script is ready to officiate a marriage.

Here’s the deal … a museum in Lexington, KY is the present residence of the notorious Cocaine Bear, a 175-pound black bear that died from a cocaine overdose manner again in 1985, and a Kentucky couple selected him to pronounce them husband and spouse.

The marriage ceremony’s happening Monday on the Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall, the place the Cocaine Bear will preside over and affirm the union of Alexandra and Armando.

Also generally known as Pablo Escobear, the black bear infamously stumbled upon 40 containers of cocaine in Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest. The medication have been dropped from a aircraft piloted by convicted drug smuggler Andrew Thornton … and the museum says the retired health worker who carried out the bear’s necropsy advised them the bear’s abdomen was packed to the brim with cocaine when it died.

Cocaine Bear was stuffed by a taxidermist and it modified fingers over time, going from Georgia to Tennessee to Nevada earlier than ending up in a Kentucky museum, the place it is now an enormous vacationer attraction.

The museum’s cofounder, Griffin VanMeter, was just lately quoted in Roadside America saying, “As long as you feel that the person marrying you — like Cocaine Bear — has the authority, then that marriage can be binding here in Kentucky” … and one couple took him critically.