Stupid & Funny News: Woman kills husband with couch

Now, I know this isn’t funny news - exactly - but it is the oddest news piece I found today…

A Russian woman in St Petersburg has killed her drunk husband with what has to be the most novel weapon ever - a folding couch.

St Petersburg’s Channel Five said the woman was upset with her husband for being drunk and for refusing to get up. Apparently, during the arguement she kicked a handle which activated the mechanism to fold the couch up against the wall.

The couch, which doubles as a bed, folded up automatically and 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.”

The St Petersburg Emergency Services Ministry said that a private rescue service removed the man’s body and a video on the tv channel’s website showed emergency workers sawing away the side panels of the couch to remove the man.

Emergency workers said the man died instantly.

Now like I said, I know it’s not funny but who would’ve thought that you could kill someone using a couch?? It's certainly ingenious!