A 20-year-old Frenchman hoping to enter a house through the chimney unnoticed had no choice but to turn himself in and call for help after being caught in an unfortunate position in the middle of the night.
Neighbors of an unoccupied property in Clermont-l’Hérault, west of Montpellier in France, were reportedly awakened by calls for rescue in the early hours of the morning, around 3 a.m. Friday night. Midi Libre” on Saturday.
But when firefighters and police arrived on scene, they found the 20-year-old trapped in the chimney, forcing them to tear off part of the ceiling to free him, according to French media.
The young man was taken to the Lapeyronie hospital in Montpellier for treatment of scratches, but his injuries are believed to be minor, Midi Libre said.
The police, for their part, will try to determine the motives that led the young man to jump down the chimney, whether to steal or to squat in the house, although they suspect that he was not trying to leave gifts under the Make tree how to approach the holidays.