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

“By the powder ingested in me … “

The actual-life taxidermied animal that impressed the film “Cocaine Bear” will officiate a Kentucky couple’s wedding 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 at the present time: Monday, March the twenty seventh, 12 pm,” the announcement continued. “Costume up, be part of us and need the couple properly,” it added within the caption.

The Put up has contacted Kentucky For Kentucky for remark.

This might be Cocaine Bear’s first wedding ceremony ceremony, the museum’s co-founder, Griffin VanMeter, informed 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 may be binding right here in Kentucky.”

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

He was then stuffed and shopped round to displays 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 identify hit theaters on Feb. 24.

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

The film — which has grossed over $78 million worldwide — follows an ensemble of locals, vacationers, criminals and police presents 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 youths.”