From My San Antonio: Remember not to relieve yourself on the Alamo.
That was the lesson a judge tried Monday to impart on El Paso resident Daniel Athens, who was ordered to spend 18 months in a state jail facility for having urinated on the Texas shrine
Athens, 23, pleaded guilty to criminal mischief of a public monument or place of human burial in February in exchange for a deal that capped his possible punishment at 18 months. The crime usually is punishable by up to two years' incarceration.
State District Judge Ray Olivarri sentenced Athens to the maximum allowed under the agreement. Time must be served day-for-day in a state jail facility, meaning there's no chance of early release on parole.
Athens was also ordered to pay $4,000 in restitution — the cost of repairing the damage done to the façade of the 250-year-old building.
Athens started urinating on the front of the mission — to the left of the front door — at about 9:25 p.m. on a Saturday in April 2012 when he was tackled by an Alamo Ranger, according to court records.
Authorities initially charged Athens with public intoxication and public urination, both Class C misdemeanor offenses.
District Attorney Susan Reed announced the plea agreement for the enhanced charge in February with a press release titled, “Don't Whizz On the Alamo.”
Ozzy Osbourne famously urinated on the Alamo Cenotaph in 1982, later bragging about it at a concert down the street in HemisFair Arena. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Man-who-whizzed-on-Alamo-to-do-time-5402348.php
18 months for peeing on a building?
But I guess this is Texas and they do things bigger, including sentencing people who go pee-pee.
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