Alejandro Valencio got wedged inside the chimney of a home rented by his ex. Connie Deweese at 3:30 a.m. The firefighters had to tear open part of her wall to rescue him. Valencio told firefighters and police that he was trying to surprise his girlfriend.

“Because I want to feel like Santa Claus,” Valencio told Evansville television station WEHT. “I was just drunk — I live here; she’s my girlfriend.”

The firefighters had to request assistance from the police because as Deweese didn’t want them to break her fireplace . “I told them to leave him in the chimney and let him die,” she told the Courier & Press.

Valencio got treated at a hospital and returned to the residence and was filmed by a local TV station as Deweese hit him with a garbage can and pelted him with bottles. (AP)