Thong Shrapnel

A "design problem" is alleged:

As she was attempting to put on a Victoria's Secret thong, a Los Angeles woman claims that a decorative metallic piece flew off the garment and struck her in the eye, causing injuries and a new product liability lawsuit against the underwear giant.

Here is a link to a video featuring a drawing of the offending garment.

Various rude comments at the Daily Rotten include:

If you really want to avoid panty-line, go commando.
I wanna see the evidence and the reenactment.
Dental floss is a privilege; not a right

But I say give the woman her day in court. Stranger things have happened. Here at work, one of our employees had to take the day off because of a paper cut to her cornea. She was filling a copy machine with paper and passed the edge of a single piece of paper directly across her eye. (It hurt like the devil for a day and quickly healed.) I don't know how big the piece of metal was that lodged in this woman's eye, but it probably hurt like the devil too and may have healed more slowly. Whether this kind of sporadic accident merits success in a lawsuit depends on the court's findings.