Lawyer Makes Thong Injury Suit Sound Boring

A Los Angeles woman’s lawsuit against Victoria’s Secret for a thong injury didn’t seem quite as titillating when her lawyer appeared with her on NBC’s Today show.

The plaintiff, Macrida Patterson, claims she was injured when a metal fastener attaching a rhinestone heart to a thong snapped off and hit her in the eye as she was changing clothes.

ABC calls the suit the case of a thong gone wrong, while MSNBC called it a thong that went sprong.

The MSNBC story says Patterson’s lawyer, Jason Buccat, “displayed a rare ability: to make talking about a thong sound as exciting as a scholarly discussion of pea gravel. He kept referring to ‘the stream of commerce’ and called the offending scrap of undergarment a product that was defective in manufacture and design, saying that what he had wasn’t a thong that went sprong, but a product liability case.”

He did manage a clever quip in response to a suggestion by Meredith Vieira that the suit was frivolous. “Victoria’s Secret does have its angels, but as we say, the devil is in the details,” he said.