Folding Couches Soon to be Illegal in MA & CA?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Folding Couches Soon to be Illegal in MA & CA?

Posted: 7/11/2008 4:12:03 AM EDT

By Denis Pinchuk,
Reuters
Posted: 2008-07-10 16:53:34

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (July 10) - A Russian woman in St. Petersburg killed her drunken husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported 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.

Police refused to comment.

The St. Petersburg Emergency Services Ministry said a private rescue service removed the man's body.

Video on the television channel's Web site 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.

Posted: 7/11/2008 4:12:47 AM EDT

[#1]

First, and what the hell kind of spring mechansim did that thing have

Posted: 7/11/2008 4:24:01 AM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
First, and what the hell kind of spring mechansim did that thing have

Apparently the springs used in 19th century bear traps.

Posted: 7/11/2008 4:24:41 AM EDT

[#3]

Too close to a folding stock. Gotta get rid of those things, you know.

Posted: 7/11/2008 4:26:54 AM EDT

[#4]

Murphy bed.

Murphy's law.

Coincidence?

I think not...

Posted: 7/11/2008 5:51:14 AM EDT

[#5]

In Russia bed sleeps on you!

Posted: 7/11/2008 5:54:46 AM EDT

[#6]

It's the cushion thing that goes up!

Posted: 7/11/2008 5:56:28 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Quoted:
First, and what the hell kind of spring mechansim did that thing have

Apparently the springs used in 19th century bear traps.

It was made from an old trebuchet.

Posted: 7/11/2008 5:56:54 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Quoted:
First, and what the hell kind of spring mechansim did that thing have

Apparently the springs used in 19th century bear traps.

It was made from an old trebuchet.

Posted: 7/11/2008 5:57:34 AM EDT

[#9]

Hehhehe … My college room-mates and I had a Sofa-Bed in our apartment … I had similar happen to me once but I didn't die, naturally. I was leaning against the back of the couch, and the bed part started to tip up, seeing what was about to happen (me getting swallowed by the couch) my room-mates did what any friend would do, and naturally shoved the bed closed on top of me trapping me under the couch/bed thing. I was in there for awhile, and it got funnier when I'd keep reaching out from under the couch and snaking things that I wanted … I think at one point I had a 6-pack of beer, pack of smokes, ashtray, and the cordless phone under there with me. People would come over, ask "Where's Ash?" and my buddies would just say "Stuck in the couch." I was under there smoking a cigarette and clouds of smoke were pouring out from between the cushions.

Good times.

Posted: 7/11/2008 5:57:52 AM EDT

[#10]

Well, do not piss off ye russian wimmenz...

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:00:42 AM EDT

[#11]

it has the sleeping thing that goes up

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:00:50 AM EDT

[#12]

Saint Petersburg is in Russia, not California or Massachusetts.

Wat do they teack in publik skools these dayz.

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:01:48 AM EDT

[#13]

Good, those things suck to move anyway.

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:02:46 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Saint Petersburg is in Russia, not California or Massachusetts.

Same ideology, different geography I guess...

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:05:47 AM EDT

[#15]

There's a Murphy bed shop by my dad's shop..Wonder what the waiting period is on one of those?

Though if it uses something like a garage door spring, I could see it happening-people have been killed fucking with those bad boys..

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:06:44 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
First, and what the hell kind of spring mechansim did that thing have

Apparently the springs used in 19th century bear traps.

It was made from an old trebuchet.

WEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:10:41 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Saint Petersburg is in Russia, not California or Massachusetts.

Same ideology, different geography I guess...

I've been to all three, know better, and would bet that you are a graduate of public schools

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:11:57 AM EDT

[#18]

I took it as satire, not a statement of actual locales.

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:21:56 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
it has the sleeping thing that goes up

DAMN YOU! That was MIIIINNE!

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:29:33 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
I took it as satire, not a statement of actual locales.

Yes, it is satire and not geographic confusion. I'm originally from Massachusetts. I love everything about my home state, except its left-wing politicians and "nanny state" anti-gun laws.

P.S. I'm not a troll. I just have some troll tendencies.

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:33:00 AM EDT

[#21]

Hah! I can top that. In Seattle they are trying to ban Styrofoam.

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:35:25 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Hah! I can top that. In Seattle they are trying to ban Styrofoam.

Not important - sorry wrong location.

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:38:04 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Saint Petersburg is in Russia, not California or Massachusetts.

Wat do they teack in publik skools these dayz.

Perhaps you didn't see that it was an attempt at HUMOR.

Since someone was killed by a folding couch, it was an attempt at humor stating that the left would try to get said couches banned in CA or MA.

It was a JOKE. Yeesh.

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:38:08 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Murphy bed.

Murphy's law.

Coincidence?

I think not...

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:55:01 AM EDT

[#25]

Awesome. Just awesome.

That just seems like something you would see in an old Looney Toones episode.

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:56:28 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Awesome. Just awesome.

That just seems like something you would see in an old Looney Toones episode.

Yeah...before they banned violence in cartoons

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:57:16 AM EDT

[#27]

Heck, I could have taken out my evil ex-mother-in-law with the sleeper sofa.

Posted: 7/11/2008 6:58:28 AM EDT

[#28]

In Russia bed sleeps on you!

SOVIET russia.

lrn2meme

Posted: 7/11/2008 7:00:22 AM EDT

[#29]

"In Soviet Russia, couch folds YOU !"

Posted: 7/11/2008 7:06:59 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
"In Soviet Russia, couch folds YOU !"

Posted: 7/11/2008 7:35:55 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Murphy bed.

Murphy's law.

Coincidence?

I think not...

Now THAT's funny!

Posted: 7/11/2008 3:22:47 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
First, and what the hell kind of spring mechansim did that thing have

{gruff voice on}Springs made by good woman blacksmith, big arms, shot put in Olympics, made from surplus tank suspension springs, not like cheap flimsy post Soviet Union crap.{/gruff voice off}

Posted: 7/11/2008 3:37:44 PM EDT

[#33]

Hmmm, I support the ban. My brother closed me up in our folding couch when I was a kid. Granted, he did feed me an air line from an old aquarium pump. Then he and his friend proceeded to put the cushions back on and sat on me. It's scarred me for life I tell ya!

Posted: 7/11/2008 3:44:14 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
Hmmm, I support the ban. My brother closed me up in our folding couch when I was a kid. Granted, he did feed me an air line from an old aquarium pump. Then he and his friend proceeded to put the cushions back on and sat on me. It's scarred me for life I tell ya!

You are just reacting emotionally, some of us need couches to eat stuff we hunted on, the right of couches is about hunting.

Now love seats, those have no sporting use.

Posted: 7/11/2008 3:48:20 PM EDT

[#35]

Bond, James Bond

Posted: 7/11/2008 3:49:33 PM EDT

[#36]

When couches are outlawed, only outlaws will have couches.

Fold 'em all, the the movers sort 'em out.

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