1 tourist attraction, saw him relieve himself on the 260-year-old limestone facade of the building. An engineer's ... more Photo: WILLIAM LUTHER, William Luther/wluther@express-news.net Man pleads guilty to urinating on Alamo 1 / 4 Back to Gallery 
 
 SAN ANTONIO — An El Paso man who urinated on the Alamo will pay for damage to the state shrine and could face time in a state jail under a plea bargain, officials said. Daniel Athens, 23, pleaded guilty Tuesday to “felony level criminal mischief of a public monument or place of human burial,” according to a release from Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed that bore the headline “Don't Whizz on the Alamo.” 
 
 The plea bargain put a cap on his punishment of 18 months in state jail and included restitution of $4,000 to be paid to the Alamo because that's what it cost to repair damage to the limestone facade of the roughly 250-year-old mission-era church. Athens was initially arrested on April 14, 2012, on two Class C misdemeanor charges of public intoxication and urinating in public after relieving himself on the shrine, according to earlier reports. 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 Osbourne was banned from the city by the city council, a symbolic move that was later rescinded after he donated $10,000 for the Alamo’s upkeep.
– 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.