People who have gotten pied in public, or pied by strangers, *especially* in public, how do you go about setting that up? I've always been curious, and have always wanted to try it out.

Your nearest major city will have sex/swing clubs and/or gay bath houses. Find one with an online community, talk to someone who either frequents often or is friendly enough with the management to be able to put you in touch. See if they would be cool with you showing up with pies and tarps and asking strangers to pie you. I have had LOADS of successful encounters at my local establishments!

I've been pied in public by a dozen or so strangers at a local sex club. If you can get involved with your local kink community it's pretty easy to pull off.

I always wear PVC/Rubber/Leather wherever I go when I am not at work.
I also have a "Pie Target" T-shirt that I wear. Anybody that approaches me or comments on my clothing gets a "Make It Kinky" sticker and during the interaction, I kinda feel out the person/persons and if I think they are cool enough, I give them my business cards.
(You can check them out in my photo folder PIE BOY Advertising)
My Dentist office knows that I offer "Pie in the Face Services" and my Doctor's office does too of which my Doctor and her nurse took advantage of my "Stress Relief Package" .
My local Hooters told me that they would gladly Pie me whenever I wanted as long as I call and let them know at least 2hrs in advance.
I've just walked into Beauty Salons and asked if anyone wanted to throw Pies in my face.
If I'm eating out I leave a PIE BOY business card with the tip.
I have left my business cards with all the adult book stores in the area.
Most of the time I'm just out shopping and someone comes up and says they really like my outfit and I give them my business cards. 100% of the time the people always laugh and ask if I am for real or look at me and size me up and decide I'm not pulling their leg.
100% of the time everyone keeps my cards.
40% of the time I actually get Pied.
I keep a large mixing bowl and a whisk and a spatula in the back of my car, along with shaving cream and coconut lotion.
2% of the time people actually text or Email me from the info on my cards and set up an appointment because they want to use real Cream Pies on me! . Those are the most fun for me because of all the anticipation.
The ones who make appointments also like to pick out the clothes that they want me to wear.
My Doctor and her Nurse chose head to toe Hot Pink PVC and I added a Purple Vinyl trench coat to the outfit!
(The picture of me at the Doctor's office is also in my pictures PIE BOY Clean)
Everyone..... And I do mean everyone,
LOVES the fact that they get to Cream Pie me while I am wearing my shiny PVC/Rubber/Leather clothing.
There is a video of a woman hitting me with real Cream Pies in public and she wanted Pink and Purple PVC and at least one Chocolate Cream Pie out of six Cream Pies. She Pied my outfit as much as she did my face and head. (That video is in my videos too)
Unfortunately I don't have a lot of those interactions on film and the ones that I do I have promised not to post. People don't want to be on social media.
I do a fair amount of hitting myself in the face with Cream Pies in public and people love to watch.
My neighbors at my apartment complex always get a big kick out of seeing me just going to get my mail or taking my garbage out and they love it even more if they see that my camera is with me and I'm carrying boxes of Cream Pies!
The people in the office like it when I sit in the "Pie Chair" in the mailroom and hit myself in the face with Cream Pies right in front of the security camera.
(The Pie Chair is a Vinyl chair in the mailroom that I absolutely love to sit in because of the sound my PVC/Rubber/Leather make when I'm sitting in it.)
I can definitely say this.
I came out of the Pie Closet in 92.
Back then I never had any issues finding people that wanted to throw Pies in my face. My girlfriend's mom once used me as "entertainment" for her book club. Those women had the time of their lives that night.... And quite frankly so did I. One very much older woman discreetly groped me through my Red Rubber pants as she hit me in the face with a Banana Cream Pie and whispered, " OOOOOOOOOOOOH" in my ear and she gave me a smile and a wink.
My girlfriend once had me standing outside of a BI-LO were she pre-ordered and bought 15 Vanilla Cream Pies and acted like a barker at a carnival telling people to step right up and throw Pies in my face! And people did, and they didn't think anything about it. People were far more relaxed back then than they are now.
Like I said, 40% of the time I do get takers that are really enthusiastic.
The other 60%, I think want to do it, but there's just something holding them back..... They do keep my cards. .
I guess the one thing that's better now....
I wear my PVC, Rubber and Leather all the time.
Back in the '80s and '90s I only wore my outfits on special occasions because the attention that they drew back then was extremely negative.
Now I can go out and people leave me alone.
Oh I still get lots of attention, but people are so scared to say anything that might offend someone now or to even look too long, or stare....
But I catch them looking out of the corner of my eye and trying to be discreet about it.... And that's all better than fine with me.

My local kink club does not have shower facilities but despite that shortcoming, with some careful planning, messy fun can be had there! The key to it is to make it as completely painless as possible for the people who run the place. Tarps, garbage bags, cleaning supplies, those impervious shoe covers to keep messy feet from leaving messy footsteps, make sure you leave everything cleaner than you found it and be generous and inclusive with your play and you will have a great time and be allowed to come back.

The business card idea sounds like so much fun to me! I actually want to try that out now

I have a wonderful Pie Domme named Vanna who loves pieing me in public places. Either my backyard, her front yard and a small town park. Twice we had spectators in the park and she invited them to pie me as well as her daughter and 2 of her friends ( all 18+) which they did. Also, 2 girls local that saw me ( Babs) get pied outside my yard ( pink fosm bucket) and wanted in on the fun, so they pied me ( not Babs) at their place of work. several other girls watched. It was a little scary at 1st, but now Babs looks forward to being pied in public

The issue is that all of the local clubs that I've found seem to share a rule that males are either not allowed to enter unless accompanied by a woman, or have to pay multiple times as much to enter.

Did you try an add on here ? Craigslist or Fetlife?

This is why you need to get involved with someone in your local kink community who frequents said establishments. Fetlife worked very well for me for many years. Fair warning - I did have to vacate Fet when an absolute tool from that site figured out my irl identity and threatened to blackmail me. I ended up closing and deleting my account and being extra careful on here. Having said that, I think what happened to me was a pretty rare occurance and has probably more to do with the fact that I wasn't concealing my identity at large public kink events, like the local black and blue ball.

Also, I am probably only a couple of years until retirement, at which point - fuck it all - full face and dick pics both there and here.

So what is the experience you are trying to create or get near? What's important?

Is it that they are strangers? Or you want it to be a spectacle and laughed at? Do you want it to be lots of people? Or do you want it to be like a seemingly endless number of pies? Or maybe just a couple novel reactions?

I'm just thinking you may be able to recreate it with fewer people once it got going. Maybe even with other Michigan wammers.