TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (61)

This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Reuters (from Monday, April 24; lik good at time of posting):

Believing they had a botched burglary on their hands, police in Hayward, California, called to a house instead found a naked man wedged in its chimney, a police officer said on Monday.

"He didn't have a stitch on," Lt. Gary Branson of the Hayward Police Department said, referring to Michael Urbano.

The 23-year-old man came home early Saturday morning and, finding himself locked out and without his keys, tried to enter the single-story house through its chimney.

"He told us he took off his clothes because as he was going down the chimney the clothes would rub up against it and slow him down," Branson said. "If it was skin on cement he felt he would go down easier."

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Officers booked Urbano for being under the influence of drugs, he added.

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