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 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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what a *****

I hate that when that happens...

Uh ohhhhh....sounds like trouble for the furniture maker...probably out law that couch now....poor guy

I think I may cancel my subsciption to the Russian Bride website.

I'm thinking of all the ways American women will implement this type of furniture into their homes under the guise of saving space, you know, in order to cause an "accident"!!!

as she was doing it, she was probably thinking
"so-fa, so good"