The story sounds quite difficult to believe for me, and I learned a long time ago that you shouldnt believe everything you read in a forum. However, that there are some possibilities that that could have happened, whether to your friend or someone else.
What I dont get is: did your friend go to the bar with the seeds written on a piece of paper? Always keep your money away from strangers. The fewer people know that you have money, the better, even acquittances.
Would your friend also give a stranger his fiat wallet with $10000 in it and then wonder if he will get it back?
Yes, I was thinking something like that. Not the fiat wallet but the password and the coordinates card or other security feature.
apparently, you did not read the whole post. I clearly stated that my friend asked for help with his wallet (at a bar where bitcoiners frequent), and the stranger gave him instructions on how to get the seed out of the wallet, but you would have had to read to figure that out.