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08-07-2016, 06:31 PM
The internet has made advertising weirder than ever
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Thirty years ago, a drug agent-turned-drug smuggler named Andrew Thornton II fell to his death after a parachuting mishap in the sky over K**xville, Tennessee.
Moments earlier, he had jettisoned a duffel bag filled with about 75 pounds of cocaine into the Georgia forest, where a black bear found it, ate a stomach-full of it and promptly died of an overdose.
SEE ALSO: Do brands benefit from making a scene on social media? (http://mashable.com/2015/08/22/controversy-brands/)
That bear — since stuffed and mounted — spent the ensuing decades in a pawn shop, a Chinese medicine store and, for a brief stint, Waylon Jennings' mansion until it found its way into the hands of three Kentucky advertising executives, who tracked it down (http://www.kyforky.com/cocaine-bear/) on a whim. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/07/brands-weird-advertising/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Thirty years ago, a drug agent-turned-drug smuggler named Andrew Thornton II fell to his death after a parachuting mishap in the sky over K**xville, Tennessee.
Moments earlier, he had jettisoned a duffel bag filled with about 75 pounds of cocaine into the Georgia forest, where a black bear found it, ate a stomach-full of it and promptly died of an overdose.
SEE ALSO: Do brands benefit from making a scene on social media? (http://mashable.com/2015/08/22/controversy-brands/)
That bear — since stuffed and mounted — spent the ensuing decades in a pawn shop, a Chinese medicine store and, for a brief stint, Waylon Jennings' mansion until it found its way into the hands of three Kentucky advertising executives, who tracked it down (http://www.kyforky.com/cocaine-bear/) on a whim. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/07/brands-weird-advertising/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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