Politicians 38% More Likely To Be Injured In Countries Whose Names Start With The Letter I

Remember that shoe-throwing incident in Iraq?  Bush should be glad he wasn't visiting Italy.

CNN reports that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ended up in the hospital, bleeding heavily from his face, following a run-in with a displeased person during a campaign stop in his hometown of Milan.

But he wasn't the victim of a thrown shoe, or even a boot:

Milan police said Berlusconi's attacker hit him with a small, metal souvenir replica of the Doumo di Milano, the city's central cathedral, but it was not immediately clear whether the man swung at the prime minister with the object in his hand or threw it at him.

Talk about a case of "holy shit" — a metal replica of a cathedral?  I don't know about you, but I've never heard of anyone being hit in the face with a freakin' church.

Here's the video:

And just because I will probably never get tired of seeing it, here's the Bush shoe-throw: