ST PETERSBURG - 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 automaticallin order to save space. The man fell between the mattres 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.

It's certainly retarded, but not completely far fetched. I can totally see how this could happen anywhere.

holy crap, thats horrible, yet hilarious!

If he was my husband I would have probably done the same thing. Not kill him of course, but try and give him a bit of a shock to get his drunken backside off the couch.

I am sure she did not intend to kill him, but I wonder how the courts and law would see the situation.

I feel sorry for the poor guy, but it is a funny story.

Not going to share this story with my wife

I do not drink, but you never know what I might goof on.

And we don't have a folding couch.

Lucky me

If only it were that easy.

If you've ever folded up one of these, well, it takes a bit of effort. Unless she happened to own a folding couch retrofitted with hydraulic rams from a commercial trash compactor, the idea that simply flipping a lever and mashing him to death instantly, is too appealing to be such an isolated event.

And considering the shoddy build of much of what's produced in Russia, it's kind of ludicrous.

My guess, is she deliberately folded him up in it, with considerable effort, and his head happened to be adjacent to a metal crossbrace. When she packed him in, (most likely sitting on the sofa to squeeze it together) it cracked his skull.

Still, he must've been a skinny little bugger, and needed killin' bad.

I agree.
It could not have been an 'accident'

and oh, he must have been skinny, and she must have been pretty strong to close the couch with him inside

This is certainly a weird incident.I feel sorry for the loss of life.Although its not a intended killing.