--- title: Texas Man Gets Prison Time For Peeing on The Alamo description: Daniel Athens, 23, was sentenced to 18 months in jail Monday for relieving himself on the limestone facade of the Alamo shrine canonical: https://time.com/63597/remember-not-to-pee-on-the-alamo/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-15T16:59:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:48.853Z og:title: Texas Man Gets Prison Time For Peeing on The Alamo og:description: Daniel Athens, 23, was sentenced to 18 months in jail Monday for relieving himself on the limestone facade of the Alamo shrine og:url: https://time.com/63597/remember-not-to-pee-on-the-alamo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Texas Man Gets Prison Time For Peeing on The Alamo twitter:description: Daniel Athens, 23, was sentenced to 18 months in jail Monday for relieving himself on the limestone facade of the Alamo shrine twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Remember Not To Pee On The Alamo by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Apr 15, 2014 4:59 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Apr 15, 2014 4:59 PM UTC A Texas man was [sentenced](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/texas/alamo-urinator-sentenced-to-prison-765419) to 18 months in prison on Monday for urinating on the Alamo shrine in 2012. Daniel Athens, 23, is not eligible for parole, and will serve the entirety of this sentence as well as pay $4,000 in restitution, The Smoking Gun [reports](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/texas/alamo-urinator-sentenced-to-prison-765419). According to the police report, an Alamo Ranger saw Athens in an off-limits area making “the motions of putting his penis back in his pants.” The ranger then discovered a “puddle” on the 25o-year-old shrine. Athens could have faced up to two years in prison. According to the report, urine can damage the limestone on the landmark. \[[The Smoking Gun](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/texas/alamo-urinator-sentenced-to-prison-765419)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/63597/remember-not-to-pee-on-the-alamo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/63597/remember-not-to-pee-on-the-alamo/"},"headline":"Remember Not To Pee On The Alamo","datePublished":"2014-04-15T16:59:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:48.853Z","description":"Daniel Athens, 23, was sentenced to 18 months in jail Monday for relieving himself on the limestone facade of the Alamo shrine","url":"https://time.com/63597/remember-not-to-pee-on-the-alamo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Texas","Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/63597/remember-not-to-pee-on-the-alamo/","name":"Remember Not To Pee On The Alamo"}}]}] ```