SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - An El Paso man faces up to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to urinating on the Alamo, the iconic structure seen by many as the symbol of the Texas spirit. 
 
 “The message is, ‘don’t whiz on the Alamo,’” Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed, said in a statement that added she would oppose any request for probation. 
 
 Daniel Athens, 23, pleaded guilty in a San Antonio court on Tuesday to the felony of Criminal Mischief of a Public Monument or Place of Human Burial, which carries a punishment of up to two years in prison. 
 
 Lawyers for Athens are working on a plea bargain with prosecutors, who are seeking 18 months in prison and drawing a line in the sand for a sentence that includes jail time. 
 
 Athens was arrested in April 2012 after an Alamo Ranger, one of the police officers who guard the state’s No. 1 tourist attraction, saw him relieve himself on the 260-year-old limestone facade of the building. 
 
 As part of a plea deal, Athens will have to pay $4,000 to repair any damage he caused. 
 
 The Alamo was constructed in the 1750s by Spanish colonists as a chapel to bring Christianity to the native peoples of what is now Texas. 
 
 It is best known for the 1836 battle between the Mexican Army and Texas settlers fighting for independence from Mexico. 
 
 The Alamo has suffered its share of urinary insults over the years, the most famous was from British rocker Ozzy Osbourne, who in 1982 urinated on the Cenotaph, a memorial to the Texans killed at the battle. 
 
 Osbourne was banned from the city by the city council, a symbolic move that was later rescinded after he donated $10,000 for the Alamo’s upkeep. ||||| Ozzy Osbourne Is Formally Apologizing Today For Peeing On The Alamo 
 
 Maybe it’s not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate the guy for his famous incident of public urination. 
 
 On February 19, 1982, Ozzy Osbourne rocked the San Antonio Convention Center Arena. It was a good period in the Ozzman’s career, at least creatively. He was a few years out of Black Sabbath, and had released two smash solo albums—Blizzard Of Oz and Diary Of A Madman. His setlist had room for solo hits like “Crazy Train” and “Mr. Crowley,” as well as the Sabbath hits that had originally made him famous. He had one of the more dynamic guitar players in the world, Randy Rhoads, at his side shredding every night. 
 
 Personally, though, Osbourne was a mess of alcoholism and addiction, and that night in San Antonio culminated in one of the defining moments in the singer’s career: He peed on the Alamo. 
 
 Well, that’s the legend, anyway. As we reported last year, when Johnny-come-lately Alamo-peer Daniel Athens was sentenced to eighteen months in a state jail for the same offense, Osbourne actually peed on the Cenotaph across the street. 
 
 Still, that moment has lived on in pop culture infamy. (Here’s an art installation commemorating it!) But it’s also been one of the deeper shames of Osbourne’s life. He was banned from the city for a decade afterward, and when he returned he made a $10,000 donation to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas—then the keepers of the Alamo—as a bid toward restitution. 
 
 At the time, the San Antonio Express-News reported that Osbourne’s donation was accompanied by the following statement: “We all have done things in our lives that we regret. I am deeply honored that the people of San Antonio have found it in their hearts to have me back. I hope that this donation will show that I have grown up.” A guide at the Alamo interviewed by the Boston Herald in 2003 explained that “everyone believes he urinated on the walls of the Alamo and just went on his merry way. That’s just not true. In fact, he felt terrible about it.” 
 
 So just how bad did Ozzy Osbourne feel about peeing on the Alamo? He’s still apologizing for it. As the Express-News reported on Wednesday, Osbourne scheduled an event at the site of the famous mission to once more issue a public apology, this time as part of a documentary series he’s filming with the History Channel. 
 
 Ozzy Osbourne will visit the Alamo Thursday to tape a History Channel show where the rock legend will apologize for urinating on the Alamo Cenotaph in 1982, District 1 Councilman Roberto Trevino revealed at a downtown forum Wednesday night. Trevino declined to say what time Osbourne would be visiting the monument — which he plans to do with his son and a “History Channel” crew — saying they want to keep the spectacle to a minimum. 
 
 Trevino declined to say what time Osbourne would be visiting the monument — which he plans to do with his son and a “History Channel” crew — saying they want to keep the spectacle to a minimum. 
 
 At the moment, it doesn’t appear that there are any Ozzy fans live-tweeting at the Alamo in the hopes of catching a glimpse of the Prince of Darkness and his camera crew as they film what we’ll call “Ozzy’s Alamo Lament.” But if you have nothing better to do and you’re in San Antonio, there are probably worse ways to spend an afternoon. At the very least, the chance to go full-circle, thirty-three years after the initial Alamo-peeing incident, will make for some must-see TV whenever it airs.
– On April 14, 2012, Daniel Athens just couldn't hold it any longer, so he ducked under a chain and relieved himself on the big building behind it. Because that building happened to be the Alamo—as in, the Alamo—the 23-year-old found himself in a San Antonio court yesterday pleading guilty to “felony level criminal mischief of a public monument or place of human burial,” reports MySanAntonio. He faces up to 18 months in state jail and a $4,000 fine, the latter because urine takes a toll on the limestone facade of a 250-year-old church. Coverage of the incident, like this at Reuters, is nearly universal in noting two things: The local DA headlined her press release "Don't Whizz on the Alamo," and Ozzy Osbourne peed there in 1982.