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tweety_fan
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 Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:38 am Post subject: Woman kills husband with folding couch |
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Woman kills husband with folding couch
10th July 2008
news.com.au
A RUSSIAN woman has killed her drunk husband with a folding couch during an argument, local media reports.
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 declined to comment.
The St Petersburg Emergency Services Ministry said a private rescue service removed the man's body.
Video on the television channel's website 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.
this is a painful way to go.... |
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sgrannel
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:43 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, it sucks for him! She would have been happier to join him in his drinking than to complain. He would have been better off without her. At least he would still be alive.
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weirdloverwilde
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:52 am Post subject: |
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  Do they say how exactly he died, though? I mean was he deprived of air, or his ribcage was squashed, or...? I have a fold-out lounge and I can't see how someone could be killed or even seriously injured by it.  |
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Quatermass
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXrAK6sUZ_0
This is what this article reminded me of (I couldn't embed it, due to various reasons).
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jrknothead
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If he died instantly, then he must have broken his neck. Asphixiation takes a few minutes.
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tweety_fan
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| you would hope it was instant in a situation like that. didn't say how he died exactly only that it was instant |
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