that’s what I do when I’m thirsty. Screw the garden hose.
Who is supposed to be watching this boy? One expects a thirsty animal to invade an attic occasionally, but not a child. I hope he’ll wind up with some capable supervision.
The article never explained why the boy felt he had to try to get into a neighbor’s house for a drink.
If I got caught doing something like that, I’d have more worries than still being thirsty - I’d still have to face Dad!
Knocking on the door and asking “May I have a drink of water?” would have been much easier.
Like most everyone else on this thread, I too think there must be more to this story...
The same thing happened to me once!
That story just doesn’t ahh... hold water.
Weird. Why couldn’t he go home for a drink? Or knock on a neighbor’s door to get a drink?
My Siamese cat did this to my neighbor in Houston. He would jump down the chimney and sit on a ledge and yowl. Finally he would free himself by jumping rest of the way down the chimney and walking across the white carpet, leaving sooty foot prints. My neighbor was not amused.
A rediculous story that gives me claustrophobic nightmares. I would literally die from panicking.
Huh?? I got pretty thirsty as a boy and wasn’t the smartest kid in the world but I would never have thought a good way to get a drink would be to climb down a chimney. Don’t they have drinking fountains or hoses in Utah?
Right... He was obviously going to get a glass out of the cupboard, pour himself a nice drink of water, rinse the glass neatly and then climb back up the chimney.
I’m not going to snark at him for trying to climb down a chimney — I pulled some crazy stunts when I was that age. But he needs to work on his excuses a bit.
This is right up there with “the dog ate my homework”.
At some point, they will refer to him as Tater Salad.
There have been burglars who were stuck in chimneys for decades before being found.