woman claims her Victoria Secret thong underwear hurt her after a metal clip flew off and hit her eye. She is suing the undergarment giant, saying in a TV interview that the injury caused her "excruciating pain. "In an appearance on NBC's "Today" show, Macrida Patterson, 52, a traffic cop in LA, said the metal clip on the underwear cut her cornea.

An Oregon town mayor has been kicked out from her post after posing on a fire truck in her black bra and underwear. According to city officials, Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist narrowly lost in Monday's recall election, 142-139, in a town with 500 registered voters. The recall is effective Tuesday.

Television star Jeremy Paxman is waging his own crusade against Marks & Spencer citing the store's a dressing utter lack of 'support' for their underpants. The star of Newsnight star said he had personally sent an email to the store's chief, Stuart Rose regarding his concerns, and much to his delight, the store chief had invited him over for lunch to discuss his complaint.

A hundred years after an Edwardian won a bet to travel the world in an iron mask while pushing a baby carriage, his great-grandson is saying he could have lied about the feat. In his 1908 wager with John Pierrepoint Morgan, the founder of JP Morgan Bank, and Lord Lonsdale for the equivalent of $2. 97 million today, Harry Bensley had to travel 30,000 miles across 19 countries while finding a wife.

A 53-year old housewife used her underwear to put out a fire that threatened the family home. Jenny Marsey said her son and nephew grabbed her size 18 - 20 cotton lingerie from a pile of washing, doused them in water, and threw them over the fire which broke out while they were trying to fry some bread.