Shoe's next?

Times of Indiatalks about the recent phenomenon of flying shoes:
And shoes can be expensive items. So, perhaps as the global financial downturn kicks in, the standard of shoe being hurled will drop, with battered old sneakers that were going in the bin anyway being given a more memorable send-off.

Or, if it's meant to be an insult, is it a case of the worse the footwear, the better?

And India Uncut sees the coining of a new term:
We all know what it means to throw the book at someone, and now it seems that dictionaries will soon have to make space for a new phrase—‘throwing the shoe.’ The origin would be the journalist who threw a shoe at George W Bush a few months ago, and it seems to be becoming a trend now that a journalist in a press conference has hurled a shoe at P Chidambaram. (In a PC, at PC, as it happens.)
Do we see a new entry in POD soon?