Lawsuit Alleges Hot Chocolate Burned Child at Lake Tahoe Resort

It wasn’t a chairlift slip-up or on-snow collision that prompted one family to sue Lake Tahoe’s Heavenly Mountain Resort. No, this time, a cup of hot chocolate is to blame.

The lawsuit said that two winters ago, Brittany Burns went to the ski resort and, during a break at the Sky Deck Cafe, ordered a hot chocolate for her five-year-old daughter, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

According to the lawsuit, an employee topped the drink with whipped cream and then slid it through a window counter to the child without a lid.