TORONTO – Ah, the 4th of July weekend. That time for our neighbors to the south to get together with friends, watch the fireworks, enjoy some BBQ and get hopelessly wedged in their own chimneys.
Wait, what?
Turns out a practical joke was no laughing matter for one Pheonix, Arizona man after his friends decided to lock him out of his own home early Sunday morning.
Evidently dead-set on entering his home, the man decided to make two important decisions: take his shirt off, and then try and enter his house via the chimney.
Unfortunately, neither choice worked out too well for him.
“This proved to be a bad decision and fortunately for him the Phoenix Fire Department Rescue crews are trained up to handle these types of confined space incidents,” a Phoenix fire spokesman said.
As you might have guessed, the unidentified 23-year-old became hopelessly stuck inside his chimney, basking in the sooty, sweaty combination that is being inside an Arizona chimney when it’s 31 degrees out.
Video taken from the scene shows Phoenix firefighters working with jackhammers and sledgehammers to free the trapped man, cutting away a section of his home’s wall until they were able to free him.
This is the second time in a week someone in the U.S. has attempted to enter their house via the chimney and come up short, proving that the notion of entering a house Santa Clause-style is about as real as Santa himself.
The 23-year-old was taken to a local hospital for observation.
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