Showing posts with label lawsuit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lawsuit. Show all posts

Monday, June 23, 2008

I don't think she had that thong on right

52-year old Los Angeles traffic cop Macrida Patterson is suing Victoria's Secret over a defective thong. She claims a metal staple used to attach a rhinestone to the thong popped off and ended up in her eye, injuring her cornea.

It seems a bit hard to believe that she was putting the thong on normally, in the normal place, and this piece shot off with such force that it ended up in her eye. Did it get caught on her foot and get stretched, creating a sort of slingshot effect? If that's what happened, I certainly have sympathy for Ms. Patterson, but it's hardly Victoria's Secret's fault. It falls in the category of things so unusual that no reasonable amount of planning is going to completely prevent them.

Every other scenario I can think of was even less Victoria's Secret's fault - standing on her head in her skimpy panties and the piece fell in her eye, wearing the panties on her head, purposely stretching the panties.

Woman sues Victoria's Secret claiming thong injury

Thursday, May 03, 2007

These Lawyers and Their Suits

An administrative law judge in the District of Columbia is suing a dry cleaner for misplacing the pants from one of his suits. The pants were found after a week and have been in the office of the dry cleaner's lawyer for over a year. The top settlement offer from the dry cleaner: $12,000. What's the judge want? $65 million.

The lawsuit was filed by a District of Columbia administrative hearings judge, Roy Pearson, who has been representing himself in the case....

Manning said the cleaners made three settlement offers to Pearson. First they offered $3,000, then $4,600, then $12,000. But Pearson wasn't satisfied and expanded his calculations beyond one pair of pants.

Because Pearson no longer wanted to use his neighborhood dry cleaner, part of his lawsuit calls for $15,000—the price to rent a car every weekend for 10 years to go to another business.

"He's somehow purporting that he has a constitutional right to a dry cleaner within four blocks of his apartment," Manning said.

Judge Sues Cleaner for $65M Over Pants