A cafe owner who painted over a dead rat rather than pick it up has been fined £12,300.

Acting on a tip off from staff, food safety inspectors in Brisbane, Australia, discovered the rodent stuck to the floor and covered in red paint under the main serving area of Jo's Brassiere.

The rat was just one of a series of finds which also included a giant fungus, other rodents both dead and alive, cockroaches and dinners rescued from bins before being re-served.

Inspectors noted a "distinct musty rodent odour" near the servery, reports the Courier Mail newspaper.

When handing down the fine to owner Theo Morris, Magistrate Ron Kilner said: "It doesn't take an expert to see that the place is in a fairly unhygienic state."
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That's very very bad

That is disgusting and funny

That Is sick ....... Hmmmmm wheres Lunch ???

??!!@#*#^%$ Disgusting enough YES?

Some people have a real problem with society to do something that sickening...

Yuck, didn't the stench of the dead rat get to him.

I would've thought it'd be easier to pick up the rat then paint over it.

Gee... what's that huge LUMP under that paint there?

yummy smells like rat soup is up today at the cafe lets go on in..

What a lazy a$$. That is absolutely disgusting. There again it reminds me why I never want to dine out .

Well, that guy deserves the scholar award.






lol, still pretty funny.

EWW!! Thats one reason rasturants scare me! Some people are so nasty and disrespectiful to the public.

If thats how he paints, imagine how sanitary he is cooking your food..........

I'm sorry but that is just plain lazy

I agree!

Ewww thats yuck

lol i'm leaning towards the funny... thats just plain hilarious

I mean, did he think no one would ever see it?

Or was it disguised as a 3D paiting....

Did they close the restaurant down, does anyone know? The story didn't say. Please tell me they didn't let them keep serving food!

I would hope they would have closed it down, if not that would be gross!

It's true! paint fumes make you high!

Eeeeeeeewwww!! *shudders*

Interesting! *runs off to grab a bite*

Someone who does something like that does not deserve to be allowed to own or operate a restraunt, its absolutely disgusting!

Atleast he didn't serve Rat!

hahaha people are lazy

aztec.. you would be surprised to see what actually goes on in the food industry.. that would only be the tip of the iceberg in many cases

thats the kind of LAZY crap that makes me want to SLAP THE piss out of some people...COME ON SERIOUSLY!?.....how freakin' 'tardish is that!!!.....its just like my step-dad leaving bowls and cups to sprout little feilds of MOLD by leaving them in the floor by the bed or on the counter....OH MAN i wanna scream some obsenities.........as you can see, i don't like laziness...*RIPS HAIR OUT!!*

he deserved what he got, if not worse....such as a complete shut down of the business for health code violations...or a good paintbrush in the face