Cocaine and a Dead Bear - The Dog Park, a Meme, and an Article

[TheGDog]

So I'm at the Dog Park the other day, and in conversation this young lady mentions there was a bear that had died of cocaine overdose.

Immediately in my comedic mind, I thought of this one Meme, and just assumed somebody had perhaps made up a fake news story to suggest that's how the meme came about. And left it at that.


Son of a B if when I get home, I do some Google-Fu and find the following NYTimes article!

Cocaine and a Dead Bear (Published 1985)

www.nytimes.com

NOTE: Snopes.com link on this same subject.

Is 'Cocaine Bear' a True Story?

Remember, only you can prevent forest overdoses.

www.snopes.com

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I love that meme.

 

[Buck197]

I'm afraid to read this due to the title!!! haha

 

[TheGDog]

I love that meme.

There this one too...


(EDIT: Looking for the Youtube link with the goofy dinosaur character...)

Aw yes... here it is... WARNING NSFW!!

And yes... I'm very dis-interested in attending to my work duties ATM.

 

[eddielasvegas]

Interesting story how this all came about, isn't it?

I heard about this story a few weeks ago and found the backstory and it has the makings of a great movie.


Eddie

 

[TheGDog]

The part of our conversation that got us to this topic was that at this Dog Park, which border the Los Alamitos training base, and the Naval Golf Course... there's a pond which always has Waterfowl coming to it. So the "Duckeees!" were coming in, and I mentioned how one time the pool guy pointed to my roof and there was a Coot up there dead. So... I went up there to get him down. I noted he didn't have any ants on him, and that there were no visible puncture marks or any wounds I could see. So in the conversation with this young lady, I mentioned how I guess he must have just perhaps died while in-flight of a heart-attack or something.

And then I mentioned how I'd seen some footage on Youtube where a Brown Bear succumb to a heart-attack and die in the wild.

And that caused her to mention the Cocaine and the Dead Bear story.

 

[MTN Humper]

That story is crazy! Might have been a real adventure if a person had run into that bear before he tipped over!

 

[FlyGuy]

That story is crazy! Might have been a real adventure if a person had run into that bear before he tipped over!

Jesus! That’s a nightmare scenario! Running into a coked out bear that can walk thru bullets and bear spray and run 80miles/hour. “Say hello to my little friend!”





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[Beendare]

i’ve seen bears chew on steel gas cans filled with fuel.....of course they will chow down on cocaine

 

[Squamch]

Jesus! That’s a nightmare scenario! Running into a coked out bear that can walk thru bullets and bear spray and run 80miles/hour. “Say hello to my little friend!”





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More likely it calls you bro a whole bunch, offers your girlfriend a bump, and tells you about the wildly successful business he's getting off the ground.

 

[TheGDog]

More likely it calls you bro a whole bunch, offers your girlfriend a bump, and tells you about the wildly successful business he's getting off the ground.

^^^TRUTH

 

[Marmots]

In the minutes between that bear's last meal and the moment it's heart finally blew up, it was probably the apex predator in the galaxy.

 

[TheGDog]

Can you imagine how Damn fast he probably ran up some trees while flyin' like that?

Wouldn't be surprised if there was a littered trail of dead prey bodies made during the first hour of it coming-on!

 

[DJF3864]

I didn't know what to expect when I opened this thread, but I am glad I did. Once I saw those pictures I was dying laughing at my desk, people probably thought I was having some kind of episode.

 

[bascott1]

 

[Diesel]

That's just wild!

I know bears will take a bite out of anything. A black bear was sampling everything on my front porch and bit into a bottle of roundup. That had to be unpleasant.

A couple of days later you could see everywhere that bear had gone by the dead grass he killed from the roundup on his paws.

 

[Mike Islander]

 

[Sccritterkiller]

She left out the Waylon Jennings part? That's unfortunate...

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