Ozzy Osbourne and his unknown ‘eagerness’ for biting off heads with one bite
The way Ozzy Osbourne described eating a live bat went down in history.
“I bit the head off a live bat the other night. It was like eating a Crunchie wrapped in chamois leather.”
Only Ozzy Osbourne could describe biting the head off an animal like this. The Prince of Darkness had a way with words, which is exactly what put him at the top of the rock music world for so long.
A Crunchie, for those who don’t know, is a British chocolate bar that is a block of honeycomb dipped in milk chocolate. It’s tough to get through but once you bite it, you’re in there and the rest is child’s play.
“I thought it was a rubber bat”
The bat ‘incident’ came on a concert at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines in 1982, when Ozzy was 32-years-old. Rolling Stone remember that “during that time, he developed a ritual where he’d pummel the audience with raw meat and they’d chuck back whatever insane things they could sneak into the venues.”
“I thought it was a rubber bat,” Osbourne admitted after picking up the animal (reports are conflicting as to whether the bat was dead or alive) that was thrown on stage. “I picked it up, put it in my mouth, crunched down, bit into it, being the clown that I am.” He then threw the corpse into the crowd.
Following the show, Ozzy Osbourne went straight to Mercy Hospital Medical Center and was eventually sent to Broadlawns Medical Center so he could be given rabies vaccines. Reports say the singer was also given a tetanus shot and had to take rabies shots to-go to complete the urgent course of medication.
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It was also reported at the time that Des Moines Police warned Mr. Osbourne he could face jail time if he were to harm any animals during a show. He never did bite another bat live on stage, but he never needed to.
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