Wife Kills Husband With Folding Couch

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Wife Kills Husband With Folding Couch

By Denis Pinchuk,Reuters

Posted: 2008-07-10 16:53:34

Filed Under: Weird News, World News

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (July 10) - A Russian woman in St. Petersburg killed her drunken husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported Wednesday.

 

St. Petersburg's Channel Five said the man's wife, upset with her husband for being drunk and refusing to get up, kicked a handle after an argument, activating a mechanism that folds the couch up against a wall.

 

The couch, which doubles as a bed, folds up automatically in order to save space. The man fell between the mattress and the back of the couch, Channel Five quoted emergency workers as saying.

 

The woman then walked out of the room and returned three hours later to check on what she thought was an unusually quiet sleeping husband.

 

Police refused to comment.

 

The St. Petersburg Emergency Services Ministry said a private rescue service removed the man's body.

 

Video on the television channel's Web site showed emergency workers sawing away the side panels of a couch to remove a man in his underwear lying headfirst between the cushions.

 

Emergency workers said the man died instantly.

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[Theunicornhunter 2]

So did she mean to do this - I know she kicked the couch intentionally but did she know it folded up. On the off chance she liked her husband this would be devastating.

[rob39874 0]

Reminds me off the time in James Bon when the Couch headed into a wall but that was faking his death.

Shouldn't the couch have a failsafe so it could not be kicked and have to be physically pulled