Section 3A: Pie Attacks and Other Thrown Objects

1071. Date: August 16, 1977
Target: Governor James Rhodes
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Details: Rhodes was attending the Ohio State Fair when protesters shouted, "Remember Kent State!" and struck him in the face with a pie, causing an eye injury.

1072. Date: October 14, 1977
Target: Activist/Celebrity Anita Bryant
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Details: A gay rights activist posing as a journalist, hit Bryant in the face with a cream pie during an anti-gay rally. Bryant's image was badly damaged in the attack.

1073. Date: November 5, 1979
Target: Mayor Ed Koch
Location: New York, New York
Details: In the middle of Koch's speech to a crowd of 3,000 people, two men and a woman jumped on stage, struck Koch with eggs, and punched him twice. They were arrested.

1074. Date: July 18, 1980
Target: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Location: Cardiff, Wales
Details: Protesters bombarded Thatcher's limousine with eggs and blocked the road with their bodies. The motorcade halted for several minutes until security officers cleared the road. Earlier, police had found two IRA firebombs nearby.

1075. Date: August 28, 1990
Target: West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
Location: Halle, East Germany
Details: Kohl stepped up to a podium to address a crowd of 5,000 people when protesters hurled tomatoes and eggs at him. Bodyguards blocked them with umbrellas.

1076. Date: June 3, 1991
Target: Prime Minister Chung Won-shik
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Details: Won-shik was delivering a lecture at Hankook University when dozens of militant students hurled eggs at him. He was then led to a playground, kicked, and doused in flour. Aides rescued him and they fled in a taxi.

1077. Date: October 23, 1991
Target: Governor Pete Wilson
Location: Los Angeles, California
Details: Hundreds of protesters hurled rocks and denounced Wilson as he spoke inside a Los Angeles hotel. Two men interrupted his speech with shouts.

1078. Date: April 1, 1992
Target: Prime Minister John Major
Location: Bath, England
Details: Major was campaigning for reelection when he was struck with eggs thrown by demonstrators.

1079. Date: April 11, 1992
Target: President F. W. de Klerk
Location: Mitchell's Plain, South Africa
Details: Thousands of protesters drowned out de Klerk's speech at a political rally. Stones and bottles were thrown at him, but batted down by bodyguards. They evacuated him to his motorcade.

1080. Date: October 3, 1992
Target: Emperor Akihito
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Details: A demonstrator broke through a crowd at a ceremony and threw a smoke bomb at Akihito. Bodyguards tackled the man and carried him away. There were no injuries.

1081. Date: November 8, 1992
Target: President R. von Weizsaecker and Chancellor Helmut Kohl
Location: Berlin, Germany
Details: Weizsaecker and Kohl delivered speeches from behind plastic shields held by riot police when protesters threw rocks and eggs at them. Protesters also cut a cable, halting the speeches. Neither dignitary was injured.

1082. Date: May 6, 1993
Target: Mayor Ray Flynn
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Details: Flynn was struck in the neck with a bottle during a disturbance at South Boston High School. Three people were arrested.

1083. Date: October 19, 1993
Target: Queen Elizabeth II
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
Details: Three-hundred Greek Cypriot demonstrators booed and threw coins and eggs at the queen's Rolls Royce car as she and Prince Philip drove away from a ceremony.

1084. Date: February 23, 1994
Target: President F. W. de Klerk
Location: South Africa
Details: De Klerk was at a campaign stop when he was struck in the head with a rock. His bodyguards rushed him to safety.

1085. Date: May 19, 1995
Target: President Fernando Cardoso
Location: Campina Grande, Brazil
Details: Hundreds of protesters surrounded Cardoso's bus during a tour and threw rocks, breaking out windows. Troopers and soldiers broke up the crowd.

1086. Date: June 1, 1995
Target: Prince Charles
Location: Ireland
Details: While Charles was walking down a street, three IRA supporters threw eggs at him and were arrested.

1087. Date: October 15, 1995
Target: Tipper Gore (wife of Vice President Gore)
Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Details: During a tour of a health center, protesters threw rocks at Gore's motorcade.

1088. Date: March 20, 1996
Target: U.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright
Location: Vukovar, Croatia
Details: Serbs hurled rocks and insults at Albright's motorcade as she toured Croatia. They called her a fascist when she got out of her car.

1089. Date: June 23, 1996
Target: Pope John Paul II
Location: Berlin, Germany
Details: Angry hecklers threw paint bags at the Pope's armored vehicle, hundreds screamed, "Go to Hell" and "Burn the Pope," and a naked woman tried to run into the path of his vehicle. About two-dozen protesters were detained.

1090. Date: July 23, 1996
Target: President S. Ntibantunganya
Location: Bujumbura, Burundi
Details: Angry crowds pelted the president's helicopter with stones and cow dung as he tried to attend the mass funeral for 340 civilians massacred by Hutu rebels. He had been under constant threat of assassination since he took office in 1994. His predecessor died in a mysterious plane crash, and his wife was bayoneted to death in 1993. After the funeral incident, he fled to the U.S. Embassy for safety.

1091. Date: August 8, 1996
Target: Pope John Paul II
Location: Nantes, France
Details: Throwing pies, water-filled condoms, and leaflets, a dozen protesters disrupted a Mass, hitting some priests with pies. They were protesting the Pope's upcoming visit.

1092. Date: October 29, 1996
Target: Congress Members
Location: Caracus, Venezuela
Details: About 1,000 university students hurled firebombs and rocks at police outside Congress. They were protesting the government's austerity policies.

1093. Date: December 5, 1996
Target: Queen Elizabeth II
Location: Manchester, Britain
Details: Two-hundred protesters surrounded the queen's car as she arrived for a function at a university. While she and Prince Philip were inside, the protesters pelted the car with eggs and pounded the windows. They were protesting cuts in education spending.

1094. Date: January 25, 1997
Target: Deputy Prime Minister Tritan Shehu
Location: Lushnja, Albania
Details: About 10,000 protesters who had lost money in get-rich-quick schemes pelted Shehu with stones and one man hit him in the back with an iron bar. They trapped Shehu inside his office for hours and chanted threats to kill him. Riot police finally rescued him, but ten officers and many reporters were also beaten.

1095. Date: March 23, 1997
Target: Governor Marc Racicot
Location: Gardiner, Montana
Details: A woman burst into a meeting and splashed a bucket of rotting bison entrails on Racicot, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, and two U.S. Senators. She was protesting the killing of more than 1,000 bison near Yellowstone National Park. She was removed and handed over to deputies.

1096. Date: April 12, 1997
Target: Prime Minister John Major
Location: London, England
Details: Five hundred demonstrators, marching in support of fired dockworkers, threw bottles, paint, and orange smoke bombs at police guarding the entrance to 10 Downing Street. Two were arrested. Major was away on business.

1097. Date May 30, 1997
Target: Presidential Candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen
Location: Mantes-La-Jolie, France
Details: Far-right leader Le Pen became involved in a 40 minute shoving match with about 30 hecklers while campaigning. He was led into a cafe for safety, but the hecklers rained eggs and rocks on it. Police escorted him to a car that took him away.

1098. Date: November 11, 1997
Target: Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta
Location: Tigard, Oregon
Details: A woman smashed a tofu cream pie in de la Renta's face as he signed autographs. She shouted, "Shame on you for using fur!" as security guards surrounded her. She was arrested.

1099. Date: February 4, 1998
Target: Microsoft CEO Bill Gates
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Details: As he entered a building to meet with computer industry and government leaders, Gates was struck in the face with three cream pies from different directions. The three pie throwers were members of a group that "pies" famous people. Their previous targets included filmmaker Bernard-Henri Levy and actress Brigitte Bardot. Two were detained and released, the third escaped.

1100. Date: February 12, 1998
Target: Proctor & Gamble CEO John Pepper
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Details: A woman walked onto the stage where Pepper was receiving an award from Ohio Governor Voinovich. She pushed a tofu cream pie into Pepper's face, and shouted, "P & G poisons animals! Shame on you!" She was arrested.

1101. Date: October 27, 1998
Target: Monsanto CEO Robert Shapiro
Location: San Francisco, California
Details: Shapiro had delivered a speech on genetic engineering at the Fairmont Hotel. He left the stage and stopped to engage a heckler, when two protesters struck him in the face with tofu cream pies. Shapiro wiped his glasses and continued to argue with the heckler, until security personnel escorted him out. The protesters were arrested for battery.

1102. Date: October 31, 1998
Target: World Trade Organization Director Renato Ruggiero
Location: London, England
Details: After finishing his speech at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 20 members of the Bionic Baking Brigade rushed up at shoved cakes onto Ruggiero's head. No police or security guards were present and none were called. Ruggiero remained calm and said, "This is not bad cake."

1103. Date: November 8, 1998
Target: Mayor Willie Brown
Location: San Francisco, California
Details: As Brown was starting a news conference, several protesters threw pies at him. He grabbed one protester for the police and two others were arrested. The group, the Bionic Baking Brigade, and had carried out four other recent pie attacks. They were protesting the rising number of evictions in the city.

1104. Date: December 2, 1998
Target: Dutch Politician Frits Bolkestein
Location: Leiden, The Netherlands
Details: Bolkestein had just begun his speech at Leiden University when protesters struck him with three cream pies. He was targeted because of his populist, right-wing views of immigrants.

1105. Date: January 4, 1999
Target: Dutch Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm
Location: Leiden, The Netherlands
Details: Zalm was attending the opening of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange when protesters struck him with two cream pies.

1106. Date: January 6, 1999
Target: TV Celebrity Noel Edmonds
Location: London, England
Details: Edmonds, the host of the television show "House Party," was filming for his show on the street when two pie throwers attacked him. He laughed off the incident and said, "I can take a joke."

1107. Date: February 17, 1999
Target: Proctor and Gamble CEO John Pepper
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Details: During Pepper's speech at Northwestern University, two female PETA animal-rights protesters smashed pies in his face. He wiped his face and continued with his speech. The protesters were charged with disorderly conduct.

1108. Date: March 25, 1999
Target: Governor Jesse Ventura
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Details: As Ventura was leaving the Whittier Community Center gym for a speech to the crowd outside, a protester threw a pie at him. It hit his trooper bodyguard on the head, grazed two other staffers, and a small piece hit Ventura on the left arm. The pie was thrown as Ventura walked past a group of protesters behind a police line. The thrower was not identified.

1109. Date: March 11, 1999
Target: Chevron CEO Kenneth Derr
Location: San Francisco, California
Details: As Derr arrived at a high school to make a speech, six environmental protesters pelted him with pies and escaped. Derr toweled himself off and then went ahead with the speech.

1110. Date: May 13, 1999
Target: Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer
Location: Bielefeld, Germany
Details: An antiwar activist hit Fischer in the head with a red paint balloon as he was sitting on the stage for a conference. Fischer suffered a burst eardrum from the assault, which was against his support of NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. He was taken to the hospital for treatment. The balloon contained a mixture of paint and foul-smelling butyric acid.

1111. Date: January 2000
Target: Scientist Keith Campbell
Location: Sussex, England
Details: Campbell, co-creator of Dolly the cloned sheep, was delivering a talk. Members of the group PIE (People Insurgent Everywhere) hit him in the face with a custard pie.

1112. Date: February 2, 2000
Target: Agriculture Minister Nick Brown
Location: London, England
Details: Brown was addressing angry farmers at a National Farmers' Union conference. A female protester, wearing a press credential, darted up and smeared a chocolate cake in his face. She then escaped. Brown dismissed it as a "silly stunt."

1113. Date: May 1, 2000
Target: Governor George Ryan
Location: Carbondale, Illinois
Details: Following a political forum, an SIUC student struck Ryan in the face with a pie while members of the media surrounded him. Trooper bodyguards quickly whisked Ryan away. The student wanted to bring attention to Ryan's corruption. She was arrested.

1114. Date: May 2000
Target: Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman
Location: Washington, D.C.
Details: Glickman was making a speech when a PETA protester approached the podium and struck him in the head with a pie. Bodyguards rushed in, grabbed up the woman, and took her off-stage where she was handcuffed and arrested.

1115. Date: August 2000
Target: Prime Minister Jean Chretien
Location: Montreal, Canada
Details: Chretien was greeting people at a local festival along with eight bodyguards. A man protesting "crimes against Canadians," evaded Chretien's security guards and approached him. As Chretien was about to shake his hand, the man pulled a cream pie from under his jacket and smashed it in Chretien's face. Mounties arrested the man for assault.

1116. Date: November 2000
Target: U.S. Chief U.N. Negotiator Frank Loy
Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
Details: Loy was delivering a daily briefing at a U.N. conference on climate change, when a protester jumped up from the front row of seats, pulled a cream pie out of her bag, and hit him in the face with it.

1117. Date: November 30, 2000
Target: Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl
Location: Berlin, Germany
Details: Kohl was signing copies of his memoirs at a book signing. A man joined a line of people waiting for an autograph. When it was his turn, he lunged forward and struck Kohl in the face with a cream cake. A press photographer began taking pictures and Kohl ordered him to stop, as he calmly wiped his face clean. Bodyguards from the federal BKA police and six security officers were in the immediate area surrounding Kohl.

1118. Date: December 10, 2000
Target: President Emil Constantinescu
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Details: Constantinescu had just finished voting in the election when a man approached him to talk about his troubles. As they walked along, the man threw a small bottle of blue dye in the president's face, before police took him away. Bodyguards helped Constantinescu wipe his face clean.

1119. Date: January 9, 2001
Target: Prime Minister Tony Blair
Location: Bristol, England
Details: A tomato struck Blair in the back as he entered the City of Bristol College to open a new campus. An aide wiped his jacket, leaving a large red stain. Protesters lobbed more tomatoes and other fruit, but missed. They were protesting Britain's policy toward Iraq. Two women and a man were arrested.

1120. Date: April 1, 2001
Target: State Senator Carol Flynn
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Details: Flynn was knocked down outside the Senate Chamber of the Capitol Building when a man struck her in the face with a cream pie. He was protesting a highway re-routing project. She was assigned a temporary security detail of state troopers.

1121. Date: May 1, 2001
Target: Foreign Minister Thorbjoern Jagland
Location: Oslo, Norway
Details: Jagland had just finished his May Day speech when protesters threw a cream pie in his face, for his "drift to the right." He laughed off the attack and called cream pie throwing "an epidemic." The week before, a teenage girl had thrown a cream cake in the face of local government minister Silvia Brustad to protest housing shortages for young people.

1122. Date: May 16, 2001
Target: Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott
Location: Rhyl, North Wales
Details: Prescott got off a bus at a campaign stop and followed police along a crowd of 30 protesters. A man threw an egg, striking Prescott in the head, and Prescott retaliated by punching the man in the face. The two began to brawl and the man pushed Prescott back against a wall before police dragged him off. Prescott then made his way into the building. The man was arrested for assault.

1123. Date: May 17, 2001
Target: Former President Bill Clinton
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Details: Clinton was jeered by anti-globalization protesters and hit by an egg while visiting Poland on a speaking tour. The egg struck his sleeve, and police arrested the man.

1124. Date: June 8, 2001
Target: Victorian Premier Steven Philip Bracks
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Details: Bracks was walking along holding the hand of an Aboriginal boy at the Magistrate's Court Building, when a protester struck Bracks with a cream pie. The boy fell and suffered bruising. The protester was arrested on several charges of assault and reckless conduct.

1125. Date: June 12, 2001
Target: Fashion Designers Calvin Klein and Karl Lagerfield
Location: New York, New York
Details: Klein and Lagerfield were walking up the red carpet at the 20th annual American Fashion Awards at Lincoln Center. Two animal rights activists stormed up yelling, "Fur pimp," and "Fur kills," and threw two tofu pies. Their aim was at Lagerfield, but they struck Klein. Two other protesters threw two more pies from behind a barricaded area. Six members of PETA were arrested for disorderly conduct.

1126. Date: July 2, 2001
Target: President Alexander Lukashenko
Location: Minsk, Belarus
Details: An unemployed man lobbed a tomato at Lukashenko during a celebration for Independence Day. The man was jailed for seven days for hooliganism.

1127. Date: September 5, 2001
Target: King Carl XVI Gustaf
Location: Varberg, Sweden
Details: While the king and queen visited a park with about 500 onlookers, a protester rushed forward, squeezed past bodyguards, and threw a cream cake into the king's face. The youth was immediately arrested.

1128. Date: August 14, 2001
Target: President George W. Bush
Location: Estes Park, Colorado
Details: A man was arrested for allegedly urging people to throw rolls of toilet paper decorated with Bush's face at the presidential motorcade as it drove past. The man was charged with disturbing the peace.

1129. Date: October 13, 2001
Target: Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai
Location: Kadoma, Zimbabwe
Details: A mob of about 70 people hurled stones at Tsvangirai's car, smashing the windows as he traveled to a party meeting. His car was also attacked July 27 by stone-throwing youths, smashing the windows. No one was injured and none of the attackers were arrested.

1130. Date: April 13, 2002
Target: Presidential Candidate Francois Bayrou
Location: Rennes, France
Details: As Bayrou campaigned at an open market, two youths hit him in the face with cream pies. They were protesting the fact that Bayrou had slapped a boy who tried to pick his pocket earlier in the week.

1131. Date: April 17, 2002
Target: Prime Minister Lionel Jospin (Presidential Candidate)
Location: Rennes, France
Details: As Jospin was walking through a crowd at a political rally, two protesting teenagers squirted him in the face with ketchup. He stopped to wipe it off, then left the hall to admonish his attackers. He later returned to the rally, wearing a clean shirt.

1132. Date: July 9, 2002
Target: Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber
Location: Hamburg, Bavaria
Details: While addressing an unruly crowd, people lobbed eggs and tomatoes at Stoiber. Security guards blocked the thrown objects with umbrellas.

1133. Date: November 22, 2002
Target: Secretary General Lord Robertson
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Details: Roberson was delivering the closing press conference at a NATO summit. Two young Russian protesters shouted, "NATO is worse than the Gestapo," and threw two tomatoes at Robertson, missing him. Security guards escorted the men away. Despite heavy protection, the men had entered the summit posing as reporters.

1134. Date: March 18, 2003
Target: Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Details: Rasmussen was on his way to a news conference in the Parliament when a peace activist poured red paint from two plastic containers onto Rasmussen. Paint also struck Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller. Security guards wrestled the activist away and he was arrested. He was protesting Rasmussen's pro-U.S. stand against Iraq.

1135. Date: May 4, 2003
Target: Italian Activist Luca Casarini
Location: New York, New York
Details: Casarini had just entered a feminist bookstore where he was scheduled to speak on anti-authoritarianism and academia. A male protester stood in front of Casarini to block his view and blew a whistle to capture everyone's attention. Then a feminist protester brought a cream pie out from under her coat and hit Casarini in the face with it. She then fled out the door, as her male companion handed out a communique.

1136. Date: June 1, 2003
Target: Reverend Fred Phelps
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Details: An anti-gay protest group stood behind barricades at the Lincoln High School graduation, because the school was giving a scholarship to a gay student. The group was from Phelps' congregation in Topeka, Kansas. Shortly before the graduation began, four people dressed in black and carrying messenger bags, approached Phelps' group and threw cream pies at them. Police charged the four with disorderly conduct.

1137. Date: July 6, 2003
Target: House Speaker Dennis Hastert
Location: Dixon, Illinois
Details: A man was arrested for felony aggravated battery after tossing a water balloon at Hastert during a parade. The balloon broke on an antique fire truck driven by Hastert, who got wet.

1138. Date: July 7, 2003
Target: Premier Ralph Klein
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Details: Klein was attending his annual "Stampede Breakfast," when a young man rushed forward and slammed a cream pie into his face. Security officials quickly apprehended the man and two others believed involved in the incident. They were charged with assault.

1139. Date: August 12, 2003
Target: Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader
Location: San Francisco, California
Details: Nader was participating in a press conference when a man ran into the room, shoved a cream pie into Nader's face, and then made a quick exit. Nader was there to endorse a Green Party candidate for the California governor's race.

1140. Date: August 28, 2003
Target: U.S. Trade Official Peter Allgeier
Location: Rio de Janerio, Brazil
Details: During a meeting, a university student rushed forward and smashed a cream pie into Allgeier's face. The student belonged to the protest group Bakers Without Borders.

1141. Date: September 3, 2003
Target: Gubernatorial Candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger
Location: Long Beach, California
Details: Schwarzenegger attended a large political rally on a university campus, attended by several thousand students. As he walked along a path lined with people, he was struck on the left shoulder with an egg. A security agent immediately brushed off the egg and helped Schwarzenegger to remove his jacket, all done without breaking stride on the way to the stage. The candidate later joked, "Now the guy owes me some bacon." Video of the incident was played on the Oprah Winfrey Show, presenting the candidate in a favorable light because of his humor.

1142. Date: September 20, 2003
Target: Israeli Minister Natan Sharansky
Location: Rutgers University, New Jersey
Details: Sharansky was about to speak at a university event when a college student struck him in the face with a cream pie. The student was charged with disorderly conduct.

1143. Date: September 26, 2003
Target: Illusionist David Blaine
Location: London, England
Details: Blaine had locked himself in an acrylic glass box in a stunt to go 44 days without food. About half way through his stunt, Henry Cookson built a catapult and fired several paint bombs, one scoring a direct hit on Blaine's box. Police arrested Cookson for criminal damage.

1144. Date: December 22, 2003
Target: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Details: Maher, on his first visit to Israel in more than two years, was at the Al Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem when a small group of extremist worshippers started shouting at him and trying to assault him. Bodyguards surrounded him and hustled him out of the compound, supporting him briefly as he appeared to lose his balance. Witnesses heard him saying, "I'm going to choke, I'm going to choke," as Muslims threw shoes at him both inside and outside the mosque.

1145. Date: March 17, 2004
Target: World Bank President John Wolfensohn and Slovenian Minister for Finance Dusan Mramor
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Details: Anti-globalization protesters threw paint in the faces of Wolfensohn and Mramor as they walked in front of the government palace.

1146. Date: March 31, 2004
Target: Businessman George Soros
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Details: Soros was attending a human rights forum when two young men burst into the room and poured glue and water on him. Security personnel led the men from the room while they shouted anti-Soros statements.

1147. Date: April 25, 2004
Target: National Front Leader Jean-Marie Le Pen
Location: Manchester, England
Details: About 100 demonstrators emptied a garbage can on Le Pen's car and pelted it with eggs, as he left a press conference for the far-right, anti-immigration, British National Party. Le Pen was under heavy security by British police and private bodyguards, who fought with protesters attempting to block his car from leaving.

1148. Date: May 19, 2004
Target: Prime Minister Tony Blair
Location: London, England
Details: While Blair was making a speech in Parliament, two men seated in the gallery each threw a condom filled with purple powder, striking Blair in the shoulder. Fearing a toxic substance, Parliament was evacuated and both men were arrested for disorderly conduct. They were protesting Fathers' Rights.

1149. Date: September 24, 2004
Target: Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych
Location: Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Details: A thrown object struck Yanukovych while campaigning. The object was originally reported as being a rock, but later as an egg. He fell to the ground and was rushed away by security personnel. He was later reported to be in stable condition in a hospital. A teen was reportedly arrested.

1150. Date: October 21, 2004
Target: Columnist Ann Coulter
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Details: Two men ran onstage and threw custard pies at Coulter as she was giving a speech to a University of Arizona crowd. She saw them charging her, turned, and ran toward the rear of the stage. One pie missed and the other grazed her shoulder. The men were tackled and arrested.

1151. Date: December 31, 2004
Target: Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
Location: Rome, Italy
Details: Berlusconi was slightly injured when a tourist threw a camera tripod at him in a packed Rome square. Berlusconi was hit behind the ear by the tripod, during an impromptu walkabout in Piazza Navona shortly after sunset. Berlusconi was bruised in the attack and saw a doctor as a precautionary measure. The assailant was seized immediately after the assault, and reportedly stated, "I did it because I hate him. I certainly didn't plan this, but when I saw him there greeting the crowds, I couldn't stop myself."

1152. Date: March 29, 2005
Target: Editor William Kristol
Location: Richmond, Indiana
Details: Kristol was lecturing at Earlham College when a man jumped onto the stage and splattered him with an ice cream pie. Members of the audience jeered the student as he walked off the stage, then applauded as Kristol wiped the goo off his face with a paper towel and said, "Just let me finish this point."

1153. Date: March 31, 2005
Target: Commentator Pat Buchanan
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Details: Buchanan was addressing a crowd of students at Western Michigan University, when a student jumped up in front of the lectern and hurled salad dressing on him. The student shouted, "Stop the bigotry." He was arrested. Buchanan stated, "Thank you all for coming, but I'm going to have to get my hair washed."

1154. Date: April 6, 2005
Target: Activist David Horowitz
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Details: Horowitz had just started a lecture at Butler University when he was struck with a pie. Horowitz's supporters followed the assailants out of the hall, and confronted them with what a witness called "pushing and shoving." However, the attackers got away. After the incident, Horowitz completed his lecture.

1155. Date: June 19, 2005
Target: Actor Tom Cruise
Location: London, England
Details: Cruise was attending a movie premier and was moving along a press line, answering questions from reporters. One reporter held out a fake mike, and squirted Cruise in the face with water. Cruise kept his cool, and lectured the prankster, finally calling him a "jerk" several times. He then turned and walked away. Police arrested four men, but Cruise did not press charges. They were reportedly working on a televised comedy program, which involves playing pranks on celebrities and members of the public.

1156. Date: October 8, 2005
Target: Editor Anna Wintour
Location: Paris, France
Details: French anti-fur activists with PETA struck Wintour in the face with a cream pie to protest against her support of fur in the fashion industry. Wintour, dressed in a fur-trimmed jacket, was hit in the face with a tofu cream pie as she left a fashion show. It was the second such attack this year on Wintour, an unapologetic fur supporter decried by animal rights groups as a "pelt pusher."

1157. Date: October 20, 2005
Target: Presidential Candidate Dumarsais Simeus
Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Details: While touring a slum area, 20 young men and women reportedly began hurling rocks and shouting insults at his motorcade. A reporter reportedly heard a gunshot fired from the crowd, but it didn't hit any of the vehicles. The motorcade immediately fled the area.

1158. Date: December 12, 2005
Target: BBC Presenter Jeremy Clarkson
Location: Oxford, England
Details: Clarkson was attending a ceremony at Oxford Brookes University to receive an honorary degree. His controversial stance on environmental issues had drawn a small group of protesters. As he was leaving the ceremony escorted by a security guard, a protester struck him in the face with a pie. Clarkson said, "Great shot," and commented the pie had too much sugar.

1159. Date: January 13, 2006
Target: Actor Heath Ledger
Location: Sydney, Australia
Details: Five paparazzi photographers, who claim Ledger spit at them last year, retaliated by squirting him with water pistols outside the premiere of his movie "Brokeback Mountain." As Ledger arrived with co-star Michelle Williams at Cinema Paris, the photographers reportedly squirted him in the face and chest for ten seconds, wetting his hair and clothing. Ledger raised his hands to protect himself and attempted to shield Williams, who was also sprayed, as the couple rushed inside the cinema. Security guards moved toward the five photographers, but they fled the scene.

1160. Date: February 15, 2006
Target: Designer Julien Macdonald and Celebrity Paris Hilton
Location: Mayfair, England
Details: Macdonald and Hilton got out of their car in front of a nightclub and were posing for pictures. An anti-fur protester reportedly with PETA emptied flour on them. Both were reportedly covered from head to toe. The female protester was held by door staff while they called police, but she escaped when sirens came into earshot. Members of PETA promised further attacks on those who continue to design fur coats.

1161. Date: April 7, 2006
Target: U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Details: Brownfield was distributing baseball equipment to little leaguers in a baseball stadium, when supporters of President Hugo Chavez demanded that he leave. On their departure, the ambassador and his four-car motorcade drove through an adjacent market where Chavez supporters began throwing produce and eggs. Motorcyclists then chased the entourage for about four miles on Caracas' main east-west highway, at times pounding on the ambassador's car. Venezuelan police officers assigned to the motorcade reportedly did nothing.

1162. Date: October 30, 2006
Target: Singer Barbara Streisand
Location: Sunrise, Florida
Details: During a skit in her concert, Streisand traded political barbs with a George W. Bush imitator. A fan in the crowd, who apparently disagreed with her politics, threw a paper cup filled with some sort of liquid on stage, but apparently did not hit Streisand. Her manager said she shrugged off the incident and responded to the angry audience member by saying: "It's a free country and they're entitled to express their opinion."