{"id":167873,"date":"2025-08-23T00:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167873\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T00:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:59:13","slug":"caught-red-pawed-tahoe-bear-caught-mid-burgle-but-caused-no-damage-aside-from-stolen-strawberry-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167873\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught red-pawed: Tahoe bear caught mid burgle but caused no damage aside from stolen strawberry ice cream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Dorado county deputies stopped a sweet tooth heist Sunday after a bear broke into the ice cream shop at Camp Richardson, and their information officer seemed to have had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100064317027021\/posts\/pfbid0HEuBz8brL17EmJivhYUmSaGtT1Jbe8GoB4d2j1PX8my8NjU8M5UJFogQpudScj9Jl\/?mibextid=wwXIfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lot of fun in reporting it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In the early morning hours of last Sunday, August 17th, Deputies were dispatched to a call for service at the Ice Cream Shop at Camp Richardson in South Lake Tahoe. <\/p>\n<p>The deputies could barely believe their eyes as they saw a large bear behind the counter of the shop. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" data-attachment-id=\"192599\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.carsonnow.org\/08\/22\/2025\/caught-red-pawed-tahoe-bear-caught-mid-burgle-but-caused-no-damage-aside-from-stolen-strawberry-ice-cream\/img_0441-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.carsonnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0441.jpeg?fit=1280%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,960\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0441\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.carsonnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0441.jpeg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.carsonnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0441.jpeg?fit=780%2C585&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0441.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192599\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>With some encouragement, the bear ultimately left, but only after showing interest in the strawberry ice cream. <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Fuzzy the bear caused barely any property damage and there was barely any cleanup.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carsonnow.org\/author\/kelsey-penrose\" rel=\"author noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/440d18ab936f95396531d117ff483d81295ddb796d90c01104810a2a91865d50\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tKelsey is a fourth-generation Nevadan and holds BAs in English Literature and Anthropology from Arizona State University, and a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Lake Tahoe. She is&#8230;\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.carsonnow.org\/author\/kelsey-penrose\" rel=\"author noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Kelsey Penrose\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Dorado county deputies stopped a sweet tooth heist Sunday after a bear broke into the ice cream&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7777,30071,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-167873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-frontpage","9":"tag-frontpage-main","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115075374653467176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}