He was not repentant about causing suffering to the rat, and was apparently doing it for shock value and his 15 minutes of fame:
The graphic video, which has been seen more than 236,000 times, shows Mr Maloney storming into a room, biting off the rat’s head and washing it down with three shots of vodka. He then gets punched in the face and has a chair broken over his back before saying “beat that”.
Read the full story on The Telegraph here.
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