The internet has made advertising weirder than ever
 

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.

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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 on a whim. Read more...

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