A giant brown bear put its exceptional sense of smell to good use as it crashed an ice cream parlour while on the hunt for a sweet treat.
The animal's determined quest for dessert led it behind the counter of Camp Richardson's, an ice cream shop which borders various forest regions in the Californian city of South Lake Tahoe.
It even appeared to be auditioning for a server's job when sheriff's deputies turned up to investigate reports of a disturbance.
Stunned officers shooed the bear out of the shop, but not before snapping a few images of their scarcely believable encounter.
'With some encouragement, the bear ultimately left, but only after showing interest in the strawberry ice cream,' read a post on the Facebook page of El Dorado County Sheriff's Office.
