The Chimney Burglar

Barcelona, 2014. A man decides to break into a clothing store. His chosen route: the chimney. His chosen preparation: removing all of his clothes, on the logic that being naked would make him narrower.

It did not. Human adults are wider than nineteenth-century Spanish chimneys regardless of what they're wearing. He got approximately halfway down and became wedged — arms pinned, unable to go up, unable to go down. He stayed there for two days. Naked. In summer. In Barcelona. With his clothes folded neatly on the roof above him.

Kit and Eden cover how the Catalan fire brigade eventually got him out (they had to demolish the chimney) and why pride is a dangerous thing to hold onto while dehydrating vertically in a stone tube.