Leather Missiles: Weapons of Mass Frustration
Mass resignation of Doctors in Gardez
Mass exodus of non-Kashmiris from Kashmir
Mass Murder of Civilians in Chechnya
Indonesia's victims of Mount Merapi buried in mass grave
Coping with failure & frustration
Most of the presentations end with the person addressing, asking the audiences to "shoot", that is, "now you may ask the questions, if any". But as the Instablogs' cartoon of the day rightly puts it, now this practice will fade out quite quickly.
Speakers all over the world have started getting scared that any person could actually hurl at them a shoe instead. Also, now speakers are preparing their presentations diligently as they are scared that anybody who does not like any point on the presentation might "shoot" shoes at them.
Also from now on, whenever a VIP will address a conference, bodygaurds would be loaded with 'SuckGuns'. These will require a training program where they would be given training as to how to suck a shoe with these guns when it is hurled at the speaker, before it reaches the dias.
Politicians will hit the gym not just to "connect with younger generation" but to learn dodging such kind of leather bullets. Actually, people just misunderstand politicians, specially, Indian politicians. They actually have a vision. This is really uncovered now that we know why most of Indian parties host party-meetings wherein participants sit in crossed-legs squatting position, with shoes left out of the hall?
These shoe hurlers: "shurlers" like the men they throw shoes at are not made in a day. They have practiced hard. Starting with throwing chalk pieces at classmates and then probably at teachers and graduating to finally taking aim at politicians. What ever your take on this issue is but, for some people these incidences are goodnews, not just innovators (who could design suckgun) but also furniture designers.
For VIP conferences, fresh chairs would be designed, these will lock both hands of reporters to it only allow them to write and do nothing else. And finally, courses teaching-"public speaking" now need to add another module "escape the shoe". As they say, most money during the "Gold-Rush" was made by people selling shovels.
