40 Years Ago: Ozzy Osbourne Arrested for Urinating on Alamo
In 1982, he was banned for the next decade.
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In 1982, he was banned for the next decade.
In 1982, he was banned for the next decade.
In 1982, he was banned for the next decade.
Ozzy Osbourne didn’t wake up Feb. 19, 1982, and decide he was going to cause trouble that afternoon by pissing on a treasured national monument in San Antonio, Texas. He was simply going about his business, partying like a rock star, and after a few drinks too many he stumbled out in the street dressed in a dress owned by his future wife Sharon Osbourne (she had hidden his clothes to keep him from going out) and emptied his full bladder on the nearest statue he could find. He had no idea he was standing at the city’s sacred 60-foot-high Cenotaph, located directly across from the Alamo bui...