Nothing to Lose Your Head Over

Another casualty of faulty Russian engineering.

A depressed Russian engineer built a macabre homemade guillotine to commit suicide in his bedroom, Pravda reported Tuesday.

Troubled Albert Repin told his parents he was building a closet at their Moscow home.

But behind his locked bedroom door, the 47-year-old divorced man was secretly building a chilling replica of the 18th century killing machine -- famously used to behead enemies of the French Revolution.

Repin spent several days assembling his DIY guillotine out of plywood, rope, and metal sheeting.

Finally, he climbed into position before cutting the rope to release the heavy, makeshift blade.

"The guillotine did not cut off his head completely only because the metal was not sharpened," a local police spokesman said.

Pravda details.

Albert’s body was in the corner of the room in a strange machine that took him a few days to build. He inserted some plywood in wooden stands and attached a sheet of metal to it. He lifted the “razor” to the ceiling and enforced it with four five-liter water bottles. He laid down on the plywood and cut the rope holding the razor.

Ouch.