{"id":97576,"date":"2025-08-20T20:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/97576\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T20:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:04:06","slug":"bear-breaks-into-south-lake-tahoe-ice-cream-shop-prefers-strawberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/97576\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear breaks into South Lake Tahoe ice cream shop, prefers strawberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.  \u2014 Deputies in South Lake Tahoe had an unexpected early-morning encounter Sunday, Aug. 17, when a large bear decided to try its paw at customer service.<\/p>\n<p>The bear was spotted behind the counter at the Ice Cream Shop at Camp Richardson, reportedly showing a strong preference for strawberry ice cream. After some polite coaxing, the bear wandered off\u2014presumably still craving a cone.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the bear, nicknamed \u201cFuzzy\u201d by staff, caused little to no damage and left cleanup to a minimum. No humans were injured, and no ice cream cones were harmed.<\/p>\n<p>Officials reminded residents that while wildlife sightings can be exciting, bears are not ideal customers and should not be tempted with sweet treats.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krcrtv.com\/news\/local\/mailto:comments@krcrtv.com?subject=Story%20Issues\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/krcrtv.com\/news\/local\/mailto:comments@krcrtv.com?subject=Story%20Issues\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Report a correction or typo.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. \u2014 Deputies in South Lake Tahoe had an unexpected early-morning encounter Sunday, Aug. 17,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[7438,64653,52170,34489,64649,79,64620,65751,201,65752],"class_list":["post-97576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bear","tag-camp-richardson","tag-customer-service","tag-deputies","tag-ice-cream-shop","tag-science","tag-south-lake-tahoe","tag-strawberry","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-sightings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97576","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=97576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}