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Woman kills husband with folding couch

Thursday, July 10, 2008

A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her
drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian
media reported.

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.