Pie and Politics: Senator Levin takes a Dutch Apple

Michigan Senator Carl Levin was unwittingly pied on August 16 at a meeting in Big Rapids, Michigan. Apparently the pie throwers were mad about Levin’s activities as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services.

The manager of the café that the meeting was being held at managed to chase down the offender, Ahlam M. Mohsen. Mohsen apparently snuck up behind Levin while her comrade was reading an anti-war statement and she shoved the Dutch Apple pie in the senator’s face.

Levin wasn’t hurt and said he wished it was blueberry pie. The political statement comes at a price, though – Mohsen is being held  in jail and a judge set her bond at $250,000, requiring a cash payment of $25,000 for her to get out.

This continues a long string of pies in the face to political figures.

In the history of pieing there have been two notable pie-throwers. Aron “The Pieman” Kay pied McGeorge Bundy, G. Gordon Liddy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and William F. Buckley, Jr.  and others in the 70’s through the early 90’s. More recently, a group of two called “Al Pieda” pied Ann Coulter in 2004.

Wikipedia has a great list of famous pies to the face, I recommend that you check it out. Add this one to the list.