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Recently in Los Angeles, a 52 year old traffic officer sued Victoria’s Secret for damage to her eye caused by a new thong. A metal clip came off unexpectedly off the thong hitting her in the eye. The case was filed on June 9, 2008 and Officer Macrida Patterson is seeking unspecified damages.

Patterson, a Los Angeles traffic cop stated in the lawsuit that the offending garment is a blue bit of fabric with a rhinestone heart forming part of the waistband, connected to the fabric by metal links.

“I was putting on my underwear from Victoria’s Secret, and the metal popped into my eye, It happened really quickly. I was in excruciating pain. I screamed. That’s what happened.”

The incident happened in May 2007 when Patterson was changing in the locker room at work after her shift and drove home despite considerable pain in her eye. The next morning her eye was so painful that she had to go to the hospital.

“Macrida suffered three actual cuts to her cornea,” said her attorney, Jason Buccat “It left some severe damage, to the point where in order for it to heal, she had to take some topical steroid. The details here will definitely show there is a defective product, both in its design and its manufacture.”

Referring to a photo of the thong: “You can see the obvious defects in that piece with respect to its defective design. First, Victoria’s Secret chose to put a decorative piece with sharp points and metal gear on its underwear itself. Second, when they placed it on that piece, it was off to the side toward the outer part of the leg, and that point is a natural stress point for any individual that’s putting on any kind of underwear.”

“This case is definitely about protecting the consumer from defective products,” he repeated. “In terms of money, that’s not what we really want here. We want to make Macrida fully redressed for her grievous injury. She’s missed work. She’s gone through a lot of suffering as well. We want to make Macrida Patterson whole again.”

Patterson claims that she called Victoria’s Secret when she got home the day of the injury to complain. The company asked her to send it the thong, but Buccat advised her not to.

“We were actually happy for them to view the thong, but what they wanted to do and we weren’t comfortable with, we were not going to relinquish that item to them altogether,” he told Vieira. “They wanted us to ship it to them so that they could do their own analysis … this a piece of evidence. That is not something we’re going to do.”

Representatives of Victoria’s Secret stated in an e-mail, “It would be really inappropriate for us to comment at this point since we have not even been served with that lawsuit yet.”

Read more at MSNBC News: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25258522/#ixzz0nmtZaD7W