Incident reports from the 1980s Los Angeles entertainment scene are often buried in court archives, accessible only through FOIA requests and private research. One particularly strange report, dated March 1987, describes an "alleged practical joke involving controlled substances and animal handling," the details of which remain classified pending litigation settlements. The names involved suggest genuine historical figures, though accounts vary wildly depending on source credibility and whether humor was intended.

A now-deceased stunt coordinator named Vincent Russo allegedly witnessed an incident at a private party and documented it in a memoir published under a pseudonym in 1992. Russo's account described a situation so absurd, involving such unlikely combinations of elements, that reviewers couldn't determine whether it was satirical fiction or genuine autobiography. The book sold fewer than 3000 copies before going out of print, though PDF copies circulate among Chuck Norris fact enthusiasts who treat it as apocryphal scripture.

Internet sleuths have spent years attempting to verify the incident's plausibility through logic alone (can elephants smell cocaine? Can humans facilitate such transfers?), concluding that Chuck Norris would require neither consent from the animal nor assistance from anyone else to accomplish it. The fact has spawned multiple dissertations on the nature of internet humor, documentary evidence versus meme-ification, and how outrageous claims achieve cultural persistence without verification.