There’s always that family member who has had one too many sherries, and jokes about Santa getting stuck in the chimney this year. You laugh politely, then return to guzzling the good wine before the last remaining dregs are opened.

Well, this year it happened. But rather than finding a plump, bearded man lodged in his chimney, Tony Hernandez woke to hear his ex-girlfriend crying for help.

She said, ‘I’m trapped in the chimney…so I tried to get her out from the top but it was too hard.”

It eventually took firefighters two hours to rescue the unnamed 35-year-old—who reportedly “removed her clothes to aid her descent”—from the 12-inch-by-12-inch chimney.

She suffered only minor physical injuries, although it is difficult to see if there remains any way to patch things up with Tony, a resident of Woodcrest in California. In addition to clearly illustrating some ‘cray-cray’ tendencies the chimney will need to rebuilt at great cost.

Our advice? Stick to sending Snapchats, and maybe lay off the Christmas ham next year.

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