Cameron hit by first thrown egg of 2010

SALTASH, England, April 21 (UPI) -- British Conservative Party leader David Cameron joked after a student threw an egg at him during a campaign stop Wednesday at a school in Cornwall.

Cameron remarked the egg was "the first one of the campaign," The Mirror reported. The egg glanced off Cameron, hitting a nearby police officer, although some yolk did get on Cameron's shirt.

A day earlier, Cameron met a man dressed as a chicken during a stop in Tamworth near Birmingham.

"Now I know which came first -- the chicken not the egg," he said Wednesday.

Cameron was leaving Cornwall College Saltash after a question-and-answer session with students. Police collared a suspect but released him after determining he had nothing left to throw, Cameron's aides said.