Shane Cuthbert admits placing dead cats on neighbours front door step

Watch the A Current Affair segment about Shane Cuthbert threatening his neighbour Phil (Mousey) here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy0y3SzGLKs

Shane Cuthbert (00:00)
They're going to hate that when I open up, obviously. Now, it's the sale of alcohol is limited to two per person. So, I can still have all my mates here doing BYO, just have a party. It means not only am I exempt from liquor licensing, being able to come in and fucking tell me what to do and regulate. But it also means that I can have the music as loud as I want and I can piss off the neighbor that keeps making complaints from across the street.

Interviewer (00:32)
Is that Mousy?

Shane Cuthbert (00:33)
Ahh, yeah, old Mousy. Now, Mousy's on the move because he shit himself. When he saw the amount of police that rocked up that day to raid me, that same day, he put up a post on Facebook saying, "Oh, has anyone got somewhere for me to leave? I need to leave urgently." He was worried about the repercussions.(laughs)

Interviewer (00:55)
He needs to go to the boneyard.

Shane Cuthbert (00:56)
He's been getting all sorts of dead cats and dead, ah, birds and things left on his doorstep and on the bonet of his car. He doesn't know where they're coming from, but he thinks it's a bit creepy. Um, he's ah..

Shane Cuthbert (01:10)
Why have you been putting dead animals on his car?

Shane Cuthbert (01:13)
Yeah, he's on the way out, old Mousy.

Interviewer (01:15)
Wait, where did you get these dead animals from?

Shane Cuthbert (01:18)
Ah just dead animals show up, ya know.

Interviewer (01:21)
They show up?

Shane Cuthbert (01:25)
(laughs) He's just shitting his pants.

Interviewer (01:29)
Wait, where did they show up? What are you talking about?

Interviewer (01:31)
Actually, you know what else is really interesting? I'll tell you something. I had-

Interviewer (01:34)
No no no no, hang on hang on. You're not killing the animals and then putting them on his property, are you?

Interviewer (11:48)
Yes. Well, the thing is, that was the first topic I wanted to mention. The second thing was still, what the fuck is this dead animal thing? Are you finding dead animals? Or are you killing animals?

Shane Cuthbert (12:03)
No, I just find them.

Interviewer (12:04)
Where do you f...to you go looking for them or do you just-

Shane Cuthbert (12:08)
There's a lot around here for some reason. I don't know why. They just, they show up.

Interviewer (12:14)
What, road kill?

Shane Cuthbert (12:17)
(laughs) Basically, I don't know because I live in the industrial area, so there's a lot of dumped cats and shit running around, and then there's a lot of fucking dead birds. A lot of dead birds from next door, so I think they poison them or something like that. I don't know.

Interviewer (12:31)
But you found dead cats?

Shane Cuthbert (12:33)
Yes.

Interviewer (12:34)
How many?

Shane Cuthbert (12:38)
I don't know. A few, three or four.

Interviewer (12:40)
And you didn't kill them?

Shane Cuthbert (12:41)
No.

Interviewer (12:42)
And how, have they been dead because they were on the road hit by cars or they just died of an older fucking age?

Shane Cuthbert (12:48)
One time, right, I had a friend here who called Triple O and said "there was a little girl here with a knife and she was covered in blood. It looked like she was appeared to be stabbed" and no police attended. I could not get police. This is since the raid. I've not been able to get police to the premises. It's like they got some like, Don't go there.

Interviewer (16:54)
So hang on, you found dead cats?

Shane Cuthbert (16:58)
Yes.

Interviewer (17:23)
And so you found these dead cats. And then you have picked them up with your hands. Were they all like rotting and smelly and shit? Like, with maggots coming out of them? Were they freshly dead? Were they stiff? Like had riga mortis set in? Like, what the hell? You just picked up a dead cat with what? Fucking maggots hanging out of its arse and everything?

Shane Cuthbert (17:46)
Ah, no, they haven't been that old.

Interviewer (17:49)
Oh, so it's a fresh kill?

Shane Cuthbert (17:51)
Yeah.

Interviewer (18:29)
Then you grabbed it and what, just...

Shane Cuthbert (18:31)
Probably with a stick or a shovel or something. I don't know.

Interviewer (18:35)
All right. And what? Flung it on his car?

Shane Cuthbert (18:38)
(laughs) Carefully placed

Interviewer (18:40)
Oh,carefully placed. (laughs) Where, like on his windshield or something?

Interviewer (18:51)
Wait where did you place the dead cats? Who does that?

Shane Cuthbert (18:56)
Oh, on his windscreen.

Interviewer (18:58)
On his windscreen. Nothing on his front doorstep?

Shane Cuthbert (19:00)
Oh yeah, on his front doorstep, too. Yeah.

Interviewer (19:04)
How many dead cats...

Shane Cuthbert (19:04)
He's got camera's everywhere now, so I've got to be real careful about it. I got to go dress up first.

Interviewer (19:09)
Oh, he's got cameras?

Shane Cuthbert (19:10)
Yeah.
Interviewer (19:12)
So you've got to what? Put a balaclava on and shit? Try to hide?

Shane Cuthbert (19:16)
Yeah.

Interviewer (19:19)
He doesn't have any pets, does he? Like is he an animal person?