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'Punk’ defiles AlamoSAN ANTONIO. Texas lt;UPI) -Punk rock performer Ozzie Osbourne was arrested Friday after urinating on the grounds of the AlamoOsbourne was seized just hours before a scheduled concert at the San Antonio Convention Center before a crowd of 14,000.Some fans who had to be turned away vented their anger by smashing windowsCity officials said 24 people, mostly juveniles, were arrested after 14 one-story windows were smashed Damages totaled $5,000, which promoter Jack Orbin agreed to pay, police said.Osbourne was arrested about 3p.m. while climbing a column after urinating on the grounds of the old mission, site of the 1836 battle for Texas independence.Officers said he was polite and docile during the drive to city jail in a police van.He was jailed for two hours on a charge of being drunk in public and released after Orbin paid a $40 bond.Osbourne indicated in an interview after his performance that he has a preoccupation with defiling public shrines.My main goal in life is to use the White House steps as a public rest-rnnm ” hp qaiHIf I had a kid, I wouldn’t let him come to my show,” he said.
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Brownsville Herald

Brownsville, Texas, US

Sun, Feb 21, 1982

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