@electronicmail,
It actually matters little why and what? Sometimes series of threads like this can be a contest of 'guess-which-Howard-Johnsons-28-flavors-of-Crazy' this is. And, after all, does it really matter except for the admittedly perverse sport of guessing.
So, for me at this it's one of 3 things. Either entertainment or its some sort of info I can use (at this point now it is neither). And it's not someone who is really asking for help of some sort.
Personally (as is the practice of so many here) I'd bend over backwards to help if I got the sense that someone really wanted help. This is some dark ruse or just someone with poor socialization who wants to call attention to themselves.
Either or any way, I'm done! May a Kansas styled farmhouse drop on them!