
Here's the funny thing. As soon as this was news'd, many lawyers (about 1000 so far) proposed themselves to defend the pitcher, and an oil giant offered 10mill $ for each shoe.

The government wanted to take him in its hands, but at this point is a legal issue and they can't touch him.
edit: another hilarious thing is how Georgie dodged the shoe impressively and then laughed at it..

at the end: "If you want the facts, it's a size 10 shoe.."

edit2: It appears that there was a huge protest when the pitcher was thrown into jail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYnMp-Cn ... re=channel Hmm.. The world is definitely not black and white.