According to reports yesterday, a Russian woman in St Petersburg fatally injured her inebriated husband with a folding sofa. The local Channel Five television station relayed that the incident occurred after the woman, frustrated with her husband’s drunkenness and refusal to get out of bed, kicked the sofa’s handle following an argument.
Her action triggered a mechanism that caused the sofa to fold up against the wall.
Designed to save space, the sofa also functions as a bed and retracts automatically.
As noted by emergency responders, the man ended up between the mattress and the back of the sofa. After this, the woman exited the room and, upon returning three hours later, discovered what she assumed was her quiet, sleeping husband.
Authorities chose not to comment on the matter.
The emergency services ministry in St Petersburg reported that a private rescue service was responsible for removing the man’s body.
Footage displayed on the television channel’s website depicted emergency responders cutting through the side panels of the sofa to extract a man dressed only in his underwear, lying headfirst between the cushions.
Emergency personnel stated that the man had passed away immediately.
