Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Naptime turns deadly

I've heard of people being killed in a variety of very unusual ways, but this one is new to me:
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.
Jesus, what was the couch made of, concrete? I thought that stuff never really caught on.

I've heard a lot of people say that when it's their time to go, they hope they'll just die in their sleep, but I think it's pretty safe to say this probably isn't what they mean.

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