Model 271 Brogues See Sharp Increase in Sales After President Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident

Ramazan Baydan Reports that Shoe Company Has Had to Increase Production of Model 271 Brogues to Keep Up with Demand

According to Ramazan Baydan, model 271 brogues are seeing an increase in sales at the Baydan Shoe Company. This is a result of the recent shoe-throwing incident that took place as President George W. Bush gave a press conference in Iraq. Due to the television audience that saw the incident, it is now being reported that the type of shoe thrown (Model 271 Brogues) are increasing in sales dramatically, and Ramazan Baydan is being forced to hire on new workers to meet the orders being placed for the shoes.

During a press conference that President Bush was having with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a reporter in the audience took off one of his model 271 brogues and threw it at the podium where the President was addressing the audience. Before officials on site could stop him, the reporter was able to throw a second shoe as well, both times causing the President to duck out of the way of the flying shoes. The incident made news not only in Iraq, but around the world, and has quickly been the punch-line to many jokes about the President, and the reporter as well.

The press conference has turned in to a bit of a wind-fall for the maker of the model 271 brogues that were thrown, as according to reports from Britain's Daily mail being posted to CNN, the "Istanbul-based Ramazan Baydan has had to recruit an extra 100 staff to meet orders for 300,000 pairs of the Model 271 brogues." That is quite an increase in production, and adds to the total of 120,000 pairs that were ordered in the week at the event occurred. It is not only putting the shoe company on a world-wide scale, but turning it into an almost "rebellion" against the United States for people to go purchase them.