Shoe thrown at Indian minister

Per the Times of India: "Home minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday ducked a shoe thrown by a journalist at a press conference" in New Delhi.

Twitterers in the region quickly used humor in their tweets, as the incident mirrored recent shoe-throwing events involving U.S. President George W. Bush in Iraq and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in England.

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   Anurag37 (Ranchi, India) Another "shoe throwing" protest against a minister this time it is India's finance minister P. Chidambaram 07 Apr 2009 from mobile web
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   sabujoseph (Cochin, India) Shoe thrown at Chidambaram, its happend in india toooo 07 Apr 2009 from web
3. 
   rushiv (Dubai, UAE) lol a sikh journalist threw a shoe at India's home minister P Chidambaram! He managed to dodge it though - http://tr.im/imF2 07 Apr 2009 from Filttr
4. 
   sajal (Bangkok, Thailand) BREAKING NEWS : India just joined USTN (== United Shoe Thowing Nations) 07 Apr 2009 from TweetDeck
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   rhebbar (India) Shoe throwing fever catches on in India ... http://tinyurl.com/dcooo8 :-) 07 Apr 2009 from web

Others were more serious, trying to get to the bottom of the incident.

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   Dhaanu (India) @sidin Why would anyone throw a shoe at poor Chidu. Not happy with his budgets? Or not happy with the IPL being shifted out of India? 07 Apr 2009 from web in reply to sidin
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   MelissaBell (Delhi, India) Indian journalist throws shoe at home minister of India. Home minister now in tears. I think journos just bored of press conferences. 07 Apr 2009 from web
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   ajmanyu (Undisclosed) shame!...india's own shoe attack....chitambram doesnt not deserve this.
   MORAL CODE OF CONDUCT for journalists.. 07 Apr 2009 from web

A video of the incident can be seen on the Times of India Web site.

Shoe thrown at Indian minister