You'll shoot your eye out!

No, honey - I wasn't making this up:

A Los Angeles woman claims she was injured by her Victoria's Secret thong, prompting her to sue the underwear manufacturer.

The plaintiff in the case, Macrida Patterson, 52, attributed the May 2007 injury to a Victoria's Secret "low-rise v-string," according to a court document posted on The Smoking Gun.

Patterson's lawyer told The Smoking Gun that a "design problem" caused a decorative metallic piece on the underwear to fly up and hit Patterson in the eye while she was putting the underwear on.

Patterson's product liability lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last week.

The Smoking Gun reported that, prior to the lawsuit, officials from Victoria's Secret had asked to see the offending underwear but were refused by Patterson's lawyer.

Too... many... jokes... not... enough... words...

I do have a question, though: just how small were these things that the mere act of putting them on created so much tension to have catapulted... er, something... at such a high rate of speed so as to injure her eye?

At least this gives fathers of daughters some ammunition (har-har) when they want to wear one. "Naw, honey; you'll shoot your eye out!"