Random Utterly Insane, True Facts About Ozzy Osbourne (15 items)

(#9) He Passed Twice In An ATV Accident

In 2004, the world almost lost the Ozzy in the least rock 'n' roll way possible when he flipped an ATV he was driving and ended up in a coma for eight days. Ozzy's bodyguard was able to save him before he passed. After the accident, Osbourne told the Sunday Mirror: “If it wasn’t for Sam I probably wouldn’t be here. He had to bring me back to life twice."
(#11) The Man Has An Insatiable Drive For Hooking Up

One of Ozzy's strangest groupie stories took place on an early Sabbath tour when they stayed at a very accommodating Holiday Inn. “So we’re in this Holiday Inn and I’ve just finished talking to [his then wife] on the phone when there’s a knock at the door. I open it and there’s this beautiful chick standing there in a little dress. ‘Ozzy?’ she goes. ‘The gig was awesome, can we talk?’ Off comes her dress, down go my trousers and after five minutes... off she went. Five minutes later there’s another knock on the door. I’m thinking, she probably left something in the room. So I get up to answer it but it’s a different chick. ‘Ozzy?’ she goes. ‘The gig was awesome, can we talk?’ These Holiday Inns are magic, I thought. Then there was another knock at the door. You can guess what happened next."
(#8) British Airways Used His Yard As A Trash Target

When photographer and music video director Dean Karr (AKA the guy that directed the Dave Matthews Band classic "Crash Into Me") visited Ozzy at his English estate, he discovered that the Osbourne family wasn't the only group using the land. He told an interviewer: "They have the biggest plot of land; it’s like five football fields of endless manicured grass with Greek statues all over. So Jack and I were cutting across the grass on the quad and I stopped him because there were little three-inch plastic wrappers everywhere. I asked Jack what was up and he said, 'Oh hey, British Airways pulls the bilge over dad’s house once a week, and it just rains down these peanut wrappers.”
(#12) He Didn't Get His Driver's License Until He Was 60

According to Ozzy, he never had a driver's license because he had never been able to sober up long enough to take the exam. "The first test was about 1974, then '75, '76, '77, '78. I've lost count how many times. I remember one time I was doing the three-point turn and I passed out because I'd been to the doctor's earlier and got some Valium for my nerves. At the end they'd say 'You've failed,' and I'd be staggering around the car park. Some [examiners] would say, 'I'm not even ... getting in the car with you.' Would you?"
(#1) His Nose Is Apparently Indestructable

According to the highly reliable source Tommy Lee, while on a 1984 tour with Mötley Crüe and Ozzy, the gang was all on the bus drinking and doing drugs like cool rock acts do. Suddenly, while they were trying to "out gross" each other, Ozzy got on his knees and snorted a line of ants that were wiggling on a popsicle stick.
(#6) Ozzy Trashed A Hotel Room With A Perished Shark's Blood

If Ozzy was biting the heads off of bats and peeing near The Alamo in the '80s, he was worse in the '70s. In his autobiography, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi told a story about Ozzy wrecking his hotel room with an actual shark. "With drugs always you get bored, so you must do something to one another. Like Ozzy hauling a shark through a window, dismembering it and soaking our room in blood."