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21-year-old urinates on the wall of The Alamo

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    Police arrest suspect for defacing historic shrine

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This is the shrine of Texas -- liberty this is where the battle of 1836 occurred and died here and they knew they were gonna die and they died for freedom.

So where police say 21 year old Daniel happens decided to relieve himself on a -- of the Alamo.

-- animal Rangers wasted no time.

In arresting the El Paso man I would like to say with the -- known not to do that but you know.

I guess who's intoxicated so that probably affected his judgment.

Now the daughters of the republic did tell us that other people have been arrested here at the Alamo.

But not free urinating on the shrine itself but rather for trying to scale up the walls.

And breaking -- In the middle of the night.

The problem with Athens -- stunt is that while his urine.

May not be seeing it has now become part of the -- because it is -- limestone rock.

-- here and it's very acidic.

So it is you know soaking into the limestone -- today that conservatory of the Alamo cleaned up the area and took the sample samarra the levels are still high the daughters of the republic of Texas who are in charge of the Alamo we'll have to start spending some money.

To get figuring out of the 300 year old wall.

This is a 300 year old building and so we have to take great care into figuring out.

The best way to clean it.

To maintain it to preserve it sending samples to a lab with determining the best solutions to drop out -- urine from the sacred walls.

And to keep testing the restarts.

Will cost several thousand dollars.

Again it -- Fox News at nine.

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