Peter Hore

For other people named Peter Hore, see Peter Hore (disambiguation).

Peter Hore
Born	Peter Michael Howard 1960 Australia
Other names	Peter Hoare

Peter Hore (sometimes spelt Hoare in Australian media), also known as SHOK is the nom de guerre of Peter Michael Howard (born 1960 in Australia). Hore suffers from schizophrenia.

Social disruption

Hore is known for having disrupted numerous sporting events as well as the funerals of former INXS 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.

Public stunts

His public stunts include:

• 4 November 1997: Running onto the race track at Flemington during the 1997 Melbourne Cup. 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 Hutchence. During Nick Cave's performance, Hore shouted "I am the Second Coming!" 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 football match - the Australia vs Iran World Cup Qualifier. 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 Open men's final (Andre Agassi v Yevgeny Kafelnikov) 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 Parliament, dancing and partially stripping before being ejected.
• 1 October 2000: He jumped the barrier to join the Sydney 2000 Olympics men's marathon carrying a digeredoo and a 1.5 metre stick. He was arrested then released on bail "on condition he stay at the Aboriginal tent embassey" [sic].
• 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 Ground 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 squatting in abandoned council-owned buildings on Sydney's Broadway and sabotaged their campaign to retain the old buildings as a low-cost housing and art precinct by graffitiing several historic shopfronts and then inviting reporters from a notorious tabloid 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 Newtowns 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 Murdoch. He was arrested and detained pending a medical assessment and to keep him from disrupting the upcoming Goodwill Games and CHOGM. The charges were later dropped.
• July 2002: He allegedly helped release 35 asylum seekers from the Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre. He spent three months in jail.
• 11 March 2006: In a Ned Kelly style helmet, he rode a tricycle with a cage containing a number of cats into the middle of EnergyAustralia Stadium in Newcastle before kickoff in a Newcastle Knights v Parramatta Eels 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 Johns during the NRL off-season that he would proceed with the stunt.
• 17 March 2006: He interrupted the Cole Inquiry into the Australian Wheat Board paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's 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 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 Show).
• 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 Riverfestival Riverfire. He was apprehended by police and released after the event.
• 12 September 2007: Walks up to new Queensland premier Anna Bligh and announces that he will run against her next year in her seat of South Brisbane.
• 24 November 2007: ran against Kevin Rudd as independent P M Howard in the Division of Griffith.
• 4 August 2008: Invaded the pitch during the Newcastle Knights vs Parramatta Eels 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 Assembly, startling members and shouting that he is a member of the "Free Australia Party".

See also

• James Miller

External links

• Peter Hore's MySpace page
• Hore's interruption of South Australian Parliament
• NSW Hansard, 10 September 1998