Burn, baby burn!
A Bronx resident is suing Madame Tussauds wax museum after suffering second-degree burns from scalding wax.
Tahkyia Brady was celebrating her wedding anniversary in Times Square last April when she decided to commemorate the occasion with a $13 souvenir wax hand.
According to a lawsuit filed in the Bronx Supreme Court, Ms. Brady complained the wax was “really hot” after a gift shop employee dipped her hand into a cylinder of hot wax to construct the mold.
The worker claimed the wax to be 175 degrees and went on to dip her hand into ice
“My skin came off. I was like, ‘Oh my, God,’” Ms. Brady told DNAinfo of the final time the worker pulled her hand out of the wax.
A museum manager treated the injury with burn cream, but the victim claims her forearm was inflamed and blistered by the time she got home.
She was treated for second-degree burns in urgent care the following morning.
The self-proclaimed Michael Jackson fanatic, initially enticed into the museum to see a sculpture of The Gloved One, was disappointed with the museum’s statues as well.
“I have a life-size Michael Jackson that looks way better than the one [the museum] has,” she told DNAinfo.
