January 20, 1982. Ozzy Osbourne performed in Des Moines, Iowa, when an audience member threw a bat onto the stage. Crazy Ozzy, thinking it was plastic, couldn't think of anything other than to take it to his mouth like a beautiful white dove and bite it on the head. He soon realized that the bat wasn't a toy: "To begin with, my mouth was filled with a sticky, warm liquid with the worst taste you could imagine. I noticed my teeth staining and running down my chin, head, in my mouth. I took a good bite.
"The bat was blinded by the lights or something, because he was just still and I thought it was a toy." I just took it to my mouth. Then her wings began to flap and I was left in shock. "I tried to get him out so fast that I ripped his head off," Ozzy narrates.
“Don’t fuck with me,” I thought, “fuck me, I just ate a bat.”. This anecdote led the singer to be taken to hospital and then suffered the torturous experience of spending a week receiving injections: "Every night, during the rest of the tour, I had to look for a doctor to give me anti-rabies injections: one in each buttocks, one in each thigh and one in each arm. I got more holes made than a fucking Swiss cheese. But I guess it was better than catching rabies. Although it's also true that no one would have noticed if I had gone mad."
