The real life Grinch

Teen arrested after getting stuck in chimney

A teen from Atlanta US was arrested after he was rescued from a chimney, in which he had been stuck in for ten hours after trying to break into a property. Fire-fighters freed the seventeen year old using a rope, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that the teen had been stuck in the chimney since 3 a.m. Tuesday.

The teen named as Ranaldo Jack, faces burglary charges as well as being charged with providing false information to a police officer, when he gave officers a fake name when first released from the chimney.

The neighbour of a neighbouring property called police after hearing Ranaldo’s cries for help. Laura Chaparro heard someone yelling for help, she said: “We were talking to him, ‘what are you doing down there?’ He just said, ‘Ah, I’m stupid,”

Apparently the owner of the home had no idea that someone had been stuck in her chimney until she came home and found TV crews there. Tsehianesh Kidane told AJC that she came home to find TV crews there. She said: “Police and everything around the house … It looks like a tornado touched down. Oh my God, that scares me to death. Why did he figure out (to go) through the chimney?”

On Tuesday night, Jack was being held without bond night in Gwinnett County Detention Centre, in his mug shot Jack is seen covered in soot.

Picture courtesy of Caveman Chuck Coker

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