melbourne a 25yearold australian man who filmed himself chewing off a live rats head and posted the video on facebook was banned on monday from owning pets for three years and given 100 hours of community service for his rabid narcissistic behaviourmatthew maloney who comes from albion in brisbane and is known as mad matt was pleaded guilty to one count of animal cruelty in brisbane magistrates courtmaloneys bizarre stunt of pulling the pet rat from a box biting off its head and taking a swig of vodka was viewed hundreds of thousands of times and had triggered widespread outrage when it was posted online in januaryterming the act as narcissistic magistrate suzette coates said the behaviour was not excusable and that people who watched the video could think he was nothing but a silly idiottheres nothing that indicates that the behaviour is manly theres nothing that indicates that it is admirable coates saidit indicates that its rabid narcissistic attentionseeking behaviour on your behalf well youve got the attention and its probably attention you wish you didnt get now coates was quoted as saying by the brisbane timesthe judge ordered maloney to complete 100 hours of community service and banned him from owning a pet for three years besides paying 89 australian dollars in court costsmaloney who was charged after a raid by royal society for the prevention of cruelty to animals rspca investigators said he agreed with the courts decision even though his actions werent that badi agree with the courts decision but i just think i dont think it was that bad he saidmaloney rejected suggestions the rat had sufferedthe rspca said it was in 29 seconds of pain i dont know how they could have proven that when they test on rats all the time he saidhe defended the killing on his page saying this is for all the butt hurt people out there having a cry about what i didthat rat in the video was a feeder rat and was always going to die maloney said watch australian man sentenced for biting off live rats head