President Bush once got a shoe thrown at him. Mexico's President Felipe Calderón recently received a more culinary assault.
Armed with cartons and baskets of eggs, Mexico City legislators launched a breakfast-worthy offensive on Calderón for having raised the tax on food basics like bread, beans and... eggs. Congressmen—inspired by generations of ticked-off teenagers or low-grade vandals—actually egged the president of Mexico when he made a visit to a ritzy neighborhood, ironically, to promote the fact that he didn't raise the price of milk.
If you read Spanish, check out the story here.
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