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A bear was discovered satisfying its sweet tooth behind the counter of an ice cream parlor in a California resort city on Lake Tahoe last week, authorities said.

Deputies responded to an ice cream shop at Camp Richardson in South Lake Tahoe in the early morning hours on Aug. 17 and found a large bear, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

"The deputies could barely believe their eyes as they saw a large bear behind the counter of the shop," the sheriff’s office wrote in the post.

Photos show the bear, who the sheriff’s office nicknamed Fuzzy, standing behind the parlor’s counter as if he were an employee waiting to serve the responding deputies.

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