Staff at the Ice Cream Shop at Camp Richardson nicknamed the bear “Fuzzy” according to authorities. The animal reportedly had a strong preference for strawberry ice cream and officers were able to coax the bear out of the service area and back into the wild.

Early Sunday morning, deputies responded to a call at the Camp Richardson Ice Cream Parlor in South Lake Tahoe, where they found that a large bear had made its way inside the shop and was spotted behind the counter, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office said.

Sheriff deputies said they could "barely" believe their eyes when they saw a bear behind the counter at a South Lake Tahoe ice cream shop.