Product Liability Law
Lawyer Makes Thong Injury Suit Sound Boring
Posted Jun 19, 2008, 10:58 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
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.
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Posted by Barbara Diment - 5 months, 3 days, 20 hours, 33 minutes ago
Mr. Buccat was admitted to the California bar according to CalBar.com on 5-20-2008. This claim has the potential to cast all lawyers in a negative light and adversely impact every meritorious claim. Why doesn’t the ABA do it’s homework and report the facts?
Posted by Hello - 5 months, 3 days, 13 hours, 20 minutes ago
Actually I had the same pair of unders, and the little heart metal piece flew off and smacked my finger! I wish someone would get me some contact information I still have the broken little pair, they are defective!!
Posted by Miss Jonie - 5 months, 3 days, 9 hours, 56 minutes ago
when I watched horrified on the today show of this law suit ..she had made a comment that it was over a yr ago of the incident and my immediate thought was “yeah it took her that long to find a lawyer goofy enough to take it on” and I agree with Barbra in comment one this definitly puts lawyers in a negative lime light I want to ramble on but it would be boring!
Posted by Kevin - 5 months, 3 days ago
Not a surprise here, lawyers could make “Naked Hollywood Starlet Day” at Cedar Point sound boring.
Posted by keh - 5 months, 2 days, 20 hours, 52 minutes ago
this makes all lawyers look like crap. What’s next- the elastic broke on my granny undies- now I have knee-walkers—where’s the courthouse!!
Posted by gerry - 4 months, 4 weeks, 13 hours, 50 minutes ago
Victoria’s Secret should ship a free pair of safety glasses with every order to prevent this from happening in the future