Santa Claus he's not, but it didn't stop Alejandro Valencio from trying to surprise the woman he called his girlfriend.

Valencio, according to the Evansville Courier & Press, got wedged inside the chimney of a home being rented by Connie Deweese at 3:30 a.m.

"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."

A pile of debris and bricks were left in the center of Deweese's living room, thanks to the firefighters who had tear open part of her wall to rescue Valencio.

District Fire Chief Allen Bittner told the newspaper that Valencio told firefighters and police he was trying to surprise his girlfriend.

Deweese said she had known the man for about seven or eight months, but told him to stay away and that she didn't want anything to do with him.

"I've dated a lot of psychos in my life, but nobody like that," Deweese told the newspaper.

Firefighters requested assistance from the police because they said Deweese was blocking the fireplace, wanting to protect the bricks.

"I told them to leave him in the chimney and let him die," she told the Courier & Press.

Deweese received misdemeanor citations on charges of disorderly conduct and interfering with a firefighter. Valencio was not charged in the incident.

Deweese said she received the citations after she realized firefighters were going to destroy the wall.

After the rescue, she said she went back to bed and later awoke to find the man back at the home.

"I beat his (butt) and told him to get out," she told the paper.

She forced him out the front door, screaming and throwing beer bottles at him.

Valencio told WEHT that he had a job and would help pay for the damage incurred from his rescue.