Peter Hore
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Peter Hore also known as SHOK is the nom de guerre of Peter Michael Howard (born 1960 in Australia
). Hore suffers from schizophrenia
.
frontman Michael Hutchence
and racehorse trainer T J Smith, often with bizarre religious claims or gratuitous nudity. Hore currently resides in the city of Newcastle
, New South Wales
.
He has previously claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ
, Nostradamus
and a secret agent. In 1998, Hore made an appearance in John Safran
's Media Tycoon, one of the two pilots
Safran made after his appearance on the ABC's
Race Around the World
.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
). Hore suffers from schizophrenia
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of thought processes and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests itself as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social...
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Social disruption
Hore is known for having disrupted numerous sporting events as well as the funerals of former INXSINXS
INXS are an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on guitar/keyboards, Jon Farriss on drums, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/sax...
frontman Michael Hutchence
Michael Hutchence
Michael Kelland John Hutchence was an Australian musician and actor. He was the founding lead singer-songwriter of rock band :INXS from 1977 to his death in 1997, a period of twenty years. Hutchence was a member of short-lived pop rock group Max Q and recorded solo material which was released...
and racehorse trainer T J Smith, often with bizarre religious claims or gratuitous nudity. Hore currently resides in the city of Newcastle
Newcastle, New South Wales
The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...
, New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
.
He has previously claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ
Jesus
Jesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity...
, Nostradamus
Nostradamus
Michel de Nostredame , usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties , the first edition of which appeared in 1555...
and a secret agent. In 1998, Hore made an appearance in John Safran
John Safran
John Safran is an Australian documentary maker and radio broadcaster, known for combining humour with explorations into religion and other issues...
's Media Tycoon, one of the two pilots
Television pilot
A "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an...
Safran made after his appearance on the ABC's
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
Race Around the World
Race Around the World
Race Around the World was an Australian documentary series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1997 and 1998 . It was based on a Canadian television series....
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Public stunts
His public stunts include:- 4 November 1997: Running onto the race trackRace trackA race track is a purpose-built facility for racing of animals , automobiles, motorcycles or athletes. A race track may also feature grandstands or concourses. Some motorsport tracks are called speedways.A racetrack is a permanent facility or building...
at Flemington during the 1997 Melbourne CupMelbourne CupThe Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...
. This was Hore's first public stunt, for which he spent one month in the Port Phillip Correctional Centre. - 27 November 1997: Though uninvited, he attended the funeral of Michael HutchenceMichael HutchenceMichael Kelland John Hutchence was an Australian musician and actor. He was the founding lead singer-songwriter of rock band :INXS from 1977 to his death in 1997, a period of twenty years. Hutchence was a member of short-lived pop rock group Max Q and recorded solo material which was released...
. During Nick CaveNick CaveNicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...
's performance, Hore shouted "I am the Second ComingSecond ComingIn Christian doctrine, the Second Coming of Christ, the Second Advent, or the Parousia, is the anticipated return of Jesus Christ from Heaven, where he sits at the Right Hand of God, to Earth. This prophecy is found in the canonical gospels and in most Christian and Islamic eschatologies...
!" and was removed. It is also reported that he exclaimed, "This is how he did it, Paula! This is how he died!", and jumped off the balcony, attached to a 4 foot black cord around a dog collar attached to his neck. - 29 November 1997: He pulled down the goal net and suspended play during a footballFootball (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
match - the AustraliaAustralia national football (soccer) teamThe Australia national association football team represents Australia in international association football competitions. Its official nickname is the "Socceroos"...
vs IranIran national football teamThe national football team of Iran represents Iran in international football competitions and is controlled by the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran...
World Cup Qualifier1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (play-off AFC-OFC)The 1998 FIFA World Cup AFC – OFC qualification play-off was a two-legged home-and-away tie between the winners of the Oceania qualifying tournament, Australia, and the losing team in the AFC play-off from the Asian qualifying tournament, Iran. The games were played on November 22 and November 29...
. At that time Australia was leading the game 2-0, with the resulting break allowing Iran to regroup and level the game with two goals, ensuring a trip to the 1998 FIFA World Cup. - 7 September 1998: He interrupted the funeral service of thoroughbred racehorse trainer T J Smith at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. He was arrested by police and later released without charge.
- 30 January 2000: He disrupted the Australian OpenAustralian OpenThe Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...
men's final (Andre AgassiAndre AgassiAndre Kirk Agassi is a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game...
v Yevgeny KafelnikovYevgeny KafelnikovYevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Russia. He won two Grand Slam singles titles , four Grand Slam doubles titles, and the men's singles gold medal at the Sydney Olympic Games. He also helped Russia win the Davis Cup in 2002...
) by running onto centre court, dancing and jumping the net. - 28 March 2000: He infiltrated the floor during eulogy readings for the late former governor Dame Roma Mitchell, in a sitting of the lower house of South Australia's ParliamentSouth Australian House of AssemblyThe House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide.- Overview :...
, dancing and partially stripping before being ejected. - 1 October 2000: He jumped the barrier to join the Sydney 2000 Olympics men's marathonMarathonThe marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...
carrying a digeredoo and a 1.5 metre stick. He was arrested then released on bail "on condition he stay at the AboriginalIndigenous AustraliansIndigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....
tent embassey". - 1 January 2001: During the Centenary of Federation parade in Sydney, he jumped on a float bare-chested and scaled a plaster head of Mary MacKillop shouting incomprehensible slogans.
- January 2001: He jumped the gate barrier at the Sydney Big Day Out festival during Limp Bizkit's performance and threw blow up sex dolls onto the stage and took his clothes off. Hore is sometimes blamed to be a factor that caused the death of a young girl in the crowd of the Limp Bizkit performance as security were distracted by Hore and could not continue working on crowd safety.
- 17 January 2001: He ran onto the pitch of a One Day International cricket match between Australia and the West Indies at the Sydney Cricket GroundSydney Cricket GroundThe Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is used for Australian football, Test cricket, One Day International cricket, some rugby league and rugby union matches and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian...
wearing a black bra and tartan kilt. He sat on the pitch before being removed by security. - February 2001: He infiltrated a group of social activists squattingSquattingSquatting consists of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have permission to use....
in abandoned council-owned buildings on SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
's Broadway and sabotaged their campaign to retain the old buildings as a low-cost housing and art precinct by graffitiGraffitiGraffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
ing several historic shopfronts and then inviting reporters from a notorious tabloidTabloid journalismTabloid journalism tends to emphasize topics such as sensational crime stories, astrology, gossip columns about the personal lives of celebrities and sports stars, and junk food news...
TV show into the barricaded premises while the other occupants were sleeping or just waking up, giving the impression that the "squalid" buildings were occupied by half-conscious drug addicts and vandals. He was later linked to more near-identical graffiti at NewtownNewtown-Australia:*Newtown, New South Wales*Newtown, Queensland *Newtown, Queensland *Newtown, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong*Newtown, Victoria , a locality near Ballarat-Ireland:* Newtown, County Cork* Newtown, County Laois...
s historic St Stephen's Cemetery. The Sydney Housing Action Collective (SHAC) believe Hore's actions turned public opinion against squatting. - August 2001: He ran onto the stage of a lingerie parade in Brisbane and approached model Sarah O'Hare saying he had a message for her husband Lachlan MurdochLachlan MurdochLachlan Keith Murdoch is the eldest son of Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his second wife Anna Torv. He resigned from his executive positions at News Corporation on 29 July 2005...
. He was arrested and detained pending a medical assessment and to keep him from disrupting the upcoming Goodwill GamesGoodwill GamesThe Goodwill Games was an international sports competition, created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s...
and CHOGM. The charges were later dropped. - July 2002: He allegedly helped release 35 illegal immigrants from the Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing CentreWoomera Immigration Reception and Processing CentreThe Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre was an Australian immigration detention facility near the village of Woomera in South Australia. It was opened in November 1999 in response to an increase in unauthorised arrivals, which had exceeded the capacity of other detention facilities...
. He spent three months in jail. - 11 March 2006: In a Ned KellyNed KellyEdward "Ned" Kelly was an Irish Australian bushranger. He is considered by some to be merely a cold-blooded cop killer — others, however, consider him to be a folk hero and symbol of Irish Australian resistance against the Anglo-Australian ruling class.Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish...
style helmet, he rode a tricycleTricycleA tricycle is a three-wheeled vehicle. While tricycles are often associated with the small three-wheeled vehicles used by pre-school-age children, they are also used by adults for a variety of purposes. In the United States and Canada, adult-sized tricycles are used primarily by older persons for...
with a cage containing a number of cats into the middle of EnergyAustralia StadiumEnergyAustralia StadiumNewcastle International Sports Centre is a multi-purpose sports stadium located in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is the home ground of the Newcastle Knights and the Newcastle United Jets teams. It is owned by the New South Wales government and administered by the Hunter Region...
in Newcastle before kickoff in a Newcastle KnightsNewcastle KnightsThe Newcastle Knights are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. They compete in Australasia's premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League premiership...
v Parramatta EelsParramatta EelsThe Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta. The Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club was formed in 1947, with their First Grade side playing their first season in the New South Wales Rugby Football League...
game. He kicked the ball off the kicking tee just moments before the game was due to start. Hore has been previously banned from the stadium for life and had reportedly told Andrew JohnsAndrew JohnsAndrew Gary "Joey" Johns is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s who is considered by many to be the greatest player of all time. He was heralded as the world's best halfback for a number of years...
during the NRL off-season that he would proceed with the stunt. - 17 March 2006: He interrupted the Cole InquiryCole InquiryThe Cole Inquiry, formally the Inquiry into certain Australian companies in relation to the UN Oil-For-Food Programme was a Royal Commission set up by the Government of Australia in November 2005...
into the Australian Wheat Board paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein'sSaddam HusseinSaddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
regime in exchange for wheat sales, announcing that he was the next Prime Minister of Australia before being removed. He had a couple of weeks previously been present in the public gallery of the inquiry holding a couple of kittens. - 14 December 2006: The online edition of the Sydney Morning Herald erroneously ran a story that he had fallen to his death from a roof beam at a Brisbane Robbie WilliamsRobbie WilliamsRobert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...
concert. - 19 April 2007: Entered a media studies lecture at the University of Queensland and started shouting at the class and guest lecturer. Notable quotes from this interruption include "I ate my own semen on Australian Idol", and "I'm going to be on the Footy Show tonight" (referring to his appearance on the Street Talk segment of The AFL Footy ShowThe AFL Footy ShowThe Footy Show is a Logie Award winning Australian sports television program, shown on the Nine Network and its affiliates.This show, which is dedicated to the AFL and Australian rules football, made its debut on 24 March 1994 at the same time as the other version which relates to the NRL and rugby...
). - 4 July 2007: Interrupted the NSW State of Origin Rugby League squad training in Brisbane's Botanical Gardens, by handing out CDs of his music and following players around on the park for their autograph.
- 1 September 2007: Jumped into the Brisbane River during RiverfestivalRiverfestivalRiverfestival, which began in 1998, is a week-long festival held in September each year at South Bank Parklands and surrounding areas , to celebrate the Brisbane River. In 2009, the festival merged with Brisbane Festival....
Riverfire. He was apprehended by police and released after the event. - 12 September 2007: Walks up to new Queensland premier Anna BlighAnna BlighAnna Maria Bligh is an Australian politician and the Premier of Queensland since 2007. The 2009 Queensland state election was the first time a female-led political party won or retained state or federal government in Australia...
and announces that he will run against her next year in her seat of South Brisbane. - 24 November 2007: ran against Kevin RuddKevin RuddKevin Michael Rudd is an Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010. He has been Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2010...
as independent P M Howard in the Division of GriffithDivision of GriffithThe Division of Griffith is anAustralian Electoral Division in Queensland.The division was created in 1934, when the old seat of Oxley was abolished, and is named for Sir Samuel Griffith, 9th Premier of Queensland and principal author of the Australian Constitution...
. - 4 August 2008: Invaded the pitch during the Newcastle KnightsNewcastle KnightsThe Newcastle Knights are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. They compete in Australasia's premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League premiership...
vs Parramatta EelsParramatta EelsThe Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta. The Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club was formed in 1947, with their First Grade side playing their first season in the New South Wales Rugby Football League...
NRL match at Energy Australia Stadium in only the first minute of the match. He was wearing a black wig, Chaser 07 t-shirt and wearing a guitar case on his back. He performed a "flop" on Parramatta prop Fuifui Moimoi in the second tackle of the match and was escorted off by security, not before he was tackled by Brett Finch. - 28 April 2009: Walked to the centre of Newcastle City Council chambers during a controversial debate to close the Loft Youth Centre, shouting "Save the Loft", "Free the Refugees" and "Free Australia Party". Hore was subsequently removed by security.
- 18 June 2009: He disrupted a sitting of the New South Wales Legislative AssemblyNew South Wales Legislative AssemblyThe Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...
, startling members and shouting that he is a member of the "Free Australia Party". - 19 December 2010: Hore jumped onto the stage at the debut show of Newcastle punk band Rat King. He grabbed the microphone during Rat King's last song and shouted a German poem about rats.