{"id":103018,"date":"2025-08-23T00:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/103018\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T00:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:08:10","slug":"bear-found-behind-the-counter-of-a-south-lake-tahoe-ice-cream-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/103018\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear found behind the counter of a South Lake Tahoe ice cream shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/T5DNL3JWAZB3BJ3UFF4WR66KCQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/>Deputies from the El Dorado County Sheriff&#8217;s Office arrived to find a bear Sunday at the ice cream shop at Camp Richardson in South Lake Tahoe, California. (El Dorado County Sheriff&#8217;s Office\/TNS) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Did it want one scoop or two?<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eldoradosheriff\/posts\/pfbid02LxhPCSVwzkm25HVU3sqL44hzeEtevqgVpyG7u12pVfoYj8ZZQ39aJqPRBpg5EhLel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Deputies from the El Dorado County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> who were dispatched to an ice cream shop at Camp Richardson in South Lake Tahoe on Sunday were greeted with a big surprise when they found a bear behind the counter, according to a Sheriff\u2019s Office news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe deputies could barely believe their eyes,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Office wrote in a lighthearted social media post about the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before they ushered the animal away, deputies made sure to snap a couple of pictures that show the bear peeking above a counter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWith some encouragement, the bear ultimately left, but only after showing interest in the strawberry ice cream,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The bear didn\u2019t cause much property damage and there was very little cleanup required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies from the El Dorado County Sheriff&#8217;s Office arrived to find a bear Sunday at the ice cream&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-103018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}