The News of the World phone hacking scandal officially became stranger than fiction when a man interrupted the UK Parliament's questioning of Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch Tuesday afternoon to push a pie (or a pie tin full of foam) into the elder's face.
Besides reacting with a deluge of "humble pie" and "piegate" jokes, the Twitterverse immediately pointed to one man as the likely perpetrator.
@JonnieMarbles seemingly outed himself when he tweeted "It's a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat" shortly before the attack -- thus borrowing a line from actual fiction.
According to a YouTube video spotted by the The New York Daily News that @JonnieMarbles posted online last year, his real name is Jonathan May-Bowles.
He describes himself in his Twitter profile as an "activist, comedian, father figure and all-round nonsense" and had earlier sent several tweets that indicated he was at the Murdoch questioning.
UK Uncut, an activist group whose logo May-Bowles uses in his Twitter photo, defensively tweeted that "The pie in Murdoch's face was NOT a UK Uncut action, everyone!"
A video from Sky News shows May-Bowles being chased by reporters as police officers lead him out of the room where Murdoch's testimony was taking place.