Woman kills husband with folding couch
Wed Jul 9, 2008 8:20pm BST
By Denis Pinchuk

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported on 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 website 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.

(Additional reporting by Tatiana Ustinova, Writing by Chris Baldwin, editing by Alison Williams)

I know that it is wrong, but I happen to find this damn funny. Hubster's need to learn to not f*** with us. LOL

LOL Cheryl, I also kind of thought it was funny. I am sorry the man died but seriously how random is a death by Sofa!!

I read the title and imagine a woman throwing a sofa at her husband. I could see my mother trying to do something like that.

Sorry the dude died, but he shouldn't have pissed off his wifey. Heh, so going to hell.

That's why I posted it. I didn't want to be the only nut laughing at the way the poor man died. I feel sorry about the fact that he died but that shit was funny. When someone told me about it I was like No way! Then I saw it and started cracking up.