<p>A woman threw a shoe at Hillary Clinton in Las Vegas that the former US Secretary of State deftly dodged, cracked jokes about before continuing with her keynote address to a 1,000-plus audience.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The attacker, a middle-aged blonde woman, was immediately taken into custody by the Secret Service as the black and orange athletic shoe whizzed past at head height to the left of 66-year-old former First Lady.<br /><br />The reason behind her act was not immediately known.<br /><br />Clinton, who is widely expected to run for the 2016 presidential elections, had to duck during her keynote address at the annual convention of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI).<br /><br />"What was that, a bat?... Is that somebody throwing something at me?" Clinton asked, putting her right hand above her eyes to cut the glare of lights from the stage, Las Vegas Review Journal reported.<br /><br />"Is that part of Cirque du Soleil?" she quipped amid laughter from the audience.<br /><br />She was referring to the acrobatic dance troupe that has several shows in Vegas.<br /><br />"My goodness, I didn't know that solid waste management was so controversial...Thank goodness she didn't play softball like I did," Clinton said, drawing cheers from the audience.<br /><br />The Secret Service said the woman, who wished not to be identified, sneaked in the auditorium.<br /><br />She was later arrested, the report said.<br /><br />An ISRI spokesman said the woman was not a credentialed convention member and was not supposed to have been in the ballroom.<br /><br />The most famous shoe-thrower in recent times has been the Iraqi journalist who hurled his two shoes at the then-US president George W Bush in Baghdad in 2008 during a press conference.</p>
<p>A woman threw a shoe at Hillary Clinton in Las Vegas that the former US Secretary of State deftly dodged, cracked jokes about before continuing with her keynote address to a 1,000-plus audience.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The attacker, a middle-aged blonde woman, was immediately taken into custody by the Secret Service as the black and orange athletic shoe whizzed past at head height to the left of 66-year-old former First Lady.<br /><br />The reason behind her act was not immediately known.<br /><br />Clinton, who is widely expected to run for the 2016 presidential elections, had to duck during her keynote address at the annual convention of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI).<br /><br />"What was that, a bat?... Is that somebody throwing something at me?" Clinton asked, putting her right hand above her eyes to cut the glare of lights from the stage, Las Vegas Review Journal reported.<br /><br />"Is that part of Cirque du Soleil?" she quipped amid laughter from the audience.<br /><br />She was referring to the acrobatic dance troupe that has several shows in Vegas.<br /><br />"My goodness, I didn't know that solid waste management was so controversial...Thank goodness she didn't play softball like I did," Clinton said, drawing cheers from the audience.<br /><br />The Secret Service said the woman, who wished not to be identified, sneaked in the auditorium.<br /><br />She was later arrested, the report said.<br /><br />An ISRI spokesman said the woman was not a credentialed convention member and was not supposed to have been in the ballroom.<br /><br />The most famous shoe-thrower in recent times has been the Iraqi journalist who hurled his two shoes at the then-US president George W Bush in Baghdad in 2008 during a press conference.</p>