He once tried stealing a 24-inch television set. Balanced
on top of a wall with it, and trying to keep his balance, he fell off
with the television landing on top of him. He did some more break and
enters but used a pair of gloves with the fingers cut off. Naturally he
was caught.
Ozzy also broke into his 63 year old neighbor�s home. It would be many
years later, in 2004 that this act would be repaid to him.
Caught breaking into Sarah Clarke's clothes shop while trying to steal
sweaters, Ozzy served six weeks of a three-month sentence at
Birmingham's Winson Green Prison. His father refused to pay the �40
fine.
While incarcerated there, Ozzy tattooed the now famous letters O-Z-Z-Y
on his left knuckles and happy faces on his knees using sewing needle
and a graphite slab. One happy face can be seen on his left knee on the
"Diary of a Madman" album cover. He would later be put in jail again for
punching a police officer in the mouth.
Shortly after his release from prison for burglary, Ozzy wound up in the
hospital on glucose for 12 hours after being thrown through a glass
window while fighting 3 men.
