The worst part about wanting to give these stories the benefit of the doubt is there are just as many stories like these where the person is actually just that stupid.

Like the guy who sued Winnebago because he wrecked his rv while driving it on the highway with cruise control on and got up to make himself coffee. Iirc he won the lawsuit because the owners manual didn’t say cruise control is not autopilot.

Hell most safety features we have today only exist because people were stupid