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Nov. 24, 2003  |  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A teenager who locked himself out of the house tried to shimmy down the chimney. It didn't work.

Battalion Chief Craig Mosley said firefighters got a call Sunday evening reporting a child stuck in a chimney. When they arrived, they found the youth stuck a few feet from the bottom.

Fire department spokeswoman Kelly McGuire identified the boy as 15-year-old Henry Golatt.

He was small enough to get most of the way down the chimney, which was about a foot wide. But the flue that opens into the house was only 8 inches across.

Mosley says firefighters considered cutting holes in the chimney or dismantling it, but decided on a less destructive approach. They lowered a rope from an aerial ladder and pulled Henry up very slowly.

He lost his pants on the trip up but only his dignity was hurt.

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I wonder what he was smoking? I thought it was hilarious he lost his pants and his dignity.. lol Nothing like coming up short in the head and the pants...

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