Shoe throwing culture? No thanks

THis is just a quick entry via my mobile email as I am having my lunch with missus. I am reading today's paper on an angry student in India throwing a shoe at PM Manmohan Singh. It now seems to appear that throwing a shoe at politicians has become quite a fad after that famous incident on former US President George W Bush. What is happening? Has the world gone to accept this as an art nouveau of sort? Its absolute bonkers! Turning to violence no matter how less harmful it may seem as a mark of protest is to me wholly unacceptable. This is definitely not the stercus accidit world!