This sue happy world just gets more ridiculous by the minute…
If you tuned into NBC’s “Today” show yesterday you likely know where I’m going with this blog.
A woman in California who apparently loves (or perhaps more accurately lovED) Victoria’s Secret has filed a lawsuit with the lucrative lingerie company after she claims a faulty staple linking a jeweled-heart embellishment to a pair of her thong underwear seriously injured her eye.
According to Marcrida Patterson, she suffered permanent damage to her cornea after an allegedly defective “low-rise v-string” (part of Victoria’s Secret’s “Sexy Little Thing” line) flew apart and struck her in the eye.
The 52-year-old says she hasn’t decided how much she wants Victoria’s Secret to shell out to her, but she wants other thong-wearing women to be warned that the popular clothing company’s fancy drawers can be hazardous to their health.
Victoria’s Secret had no comment on the lawsuit.
So, are you thinking what I’m thinking? What in the world is a 52-year-old doing wearing a “low-rise v-string” then going on national TV complaining that it busted when she put it on?
Moving on… a Pittsburgh woman who sent Comcast Corp. a check made out for “My Right Arm and Zero Dollars” might fare better in court with her current lawsuit.
According to court records, Krista Cooney and her husband Chad are suing the Philadelphia-based cable television company for invasion of privacy. In their lawsuit the couple claims an unknown Comcast employee circulated a copy of the check – containing their personal banking information – along with a snide comment on the World Wide Web.
Court filings show that a Colorado man saw a copy of the check on the Internet and informed the couple.
Okay, I admit I did chuckle over this one. Anyone who pays exorbitant cable bills has got to see the humor in this one.
A check made out for “My Right Arm and Zero Dollars”—that’s funny.
Cooney says she sent the check to Comcast last summer because she was floored by the humungous bill she received after subscribing to bundled services for her cable television, Internet and telephone.
Sure, Cooney could have handled the incident in a more mature manner, but posting a copy of the check on the Internet pretty much blows Comcast’s case, at least in my opinion.
Comcast officials have yet to comment on the suit.
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