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HAYWARD, CA---Down through the chimney like old St. Nick---or so he thought.
Christmas is four months past but Michael Urbano decided to make like Santa Claus and slide down the chimney into his stepmother's house---except he got stuck early Saturday morning. Urbano, 23, spent five hours in the chimney naked before his cries for help were heard.
After returning to the house from an evening an bar-hopping, Urbano found himself locked out and decided to enter the house through the chimney, taking off his clothes so they wouldn't impede him. He disconnected a cable TV wire and tried to rappel down the chimney but the cable snapped and he got wedged inside the chimney about three quarters of the way down.
Urbano was freed by police with an officer laying on his back in the fireplace and using his feet to push Urbano back up the chimney. Officers on the roof pulled him out. His clothes were found in the fireplace.
Urbano was arrested for suspicion of being under the influence of drugs.
4-25-06
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