
Hillary Clinton ducks after a woman threw a shoe at her while she was delivering remarks in Las Vegas on April 10, 2014.

A gay rights activist dumped glitter on a table where GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich and his wife, Callista, were signing books at a hotel in Minneapolis on May 17, 2011.

Rick Santorum was glitter-bombed often throughout the 2012 presidential campaign. The target of gay rights activists and Occupy protesters, Santorum, Gingrich and Mitt Romney found themselves bedazzled until one protester discovered you could be charged with "firing a missile" and spend six months in jail for doing it.

In 2008, President George W. Bush ducked after a man threw a shoe at the podium during a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq.

Conservative commentator and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan was doused with salad dressing on his face in 2005 after a man rushed the podium while he was speaking at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Buchanan cut short his Q & A session with the audience saying, "Thank you all for coming, but I'm going to have to get my hair washed."

During a European speaking tour in 2001, Bill Clinton visited Poland and was hit by a raw egg. Clinton later quipped, "I had an interesting encounter with an anti-globalist. But thank goodness his aim was not very good when he threw the egg!"

Illinois Gov. George Ryan in 2000 was hit with a pie in the face by a protester while speaking with reporters following a public forum in Carbondale.

San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was nailed in the face with several pies during a news conference in 1998. Cherry, pumpkin, and tofu pies were all thrown by the protesters claiming a "pastry uprising."


