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 Sheriffs 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 sheriffs office wrote in the post.Photos show the bear, who the sheriffs office nicknamed Fuzzy, standing behind the parlors counter as if he were an employee waiting to serve the responding deputies.BEARS ESCAPE WILDLIFE PARK ENCLOSURE AND FEAST ON WEEK'S WORTH OF HONEYFuzzy had already sampled a variety of flavors before deputies could arrive and shoo it away, though the sheriffs office said it appeared to prefer one sweet treat.POLICE OFFICIALS HOST 'BEAR DRILLS FOLLOWING STRING OF BEAR ATTACKS"With some encouragement, the bear ultimately left, but only after showing interest in the strawberry ice cream," authorities said.The ice cream shop sustained little damage during the bears ice cream raid, and there was "barely any cleanup," the sheriffs office said.Camp Richardson is a 128-acre resort in South Lake Tahoe, about 66 miles south of Reno, Nevada.