A video of a man performing a Mission Impossible-style attempted burglary in Brisbane's north has been shared by police with the hopes someone can identify the clumsy crook.

About 1am on March 7 a man lowered himself with a rope from the roof of a Chermside computer business onto a desk in an alleged attempted burglary.

In the process of lowering himself onto the desk the man managed to catch his foot in the rope and trip off the desk and onto the floor, losing his shoe in the process.

The man conducted a quick survey of the property and after an unsuccessful attempt to steal some laptops, he awkwardly climbed back up into hole in the ceiling he had entered through.