While the other guy is named James Howell.
The story of this guy is different beacuse he threw away his HDD that contains 8,000 Bitcoins on 2013. He's got some proposal to use AI to clean the landfill but the management can't just agree to it.
He didn't throw away the HDD, but his wife, and all that nonsense about how AI and some kind of robots will help him find what was lost a long time ago are nothing but a bunch of ordinary nonsense with which he wants to draw attention to himself. He used to ask for 250 pounds for an interview, maybe today he asks twice as much, or he hopes that someone will make a movie about him.
In addition, a hard drive that has been buried for so long in a pile of who knows what kind of junk is probably completely unusable, in other words, the chances that the data can be saved are almost nil.
These are just the few of the many that have lost their Bitcoins forever while there's just little to no chance for both of them to recover it, so we can conclude that they're totally lost forever. Should they give up or accepted that they're lost forever, these lost Bitcoins are like a donation to the community as its value retained on the market capitalization of Bitcoin.
Here we are talking about some 15 000 BTC, and that is completely insignificant considering the max supply and the fact that some, based on very strange methodologies, say that millions of BTC have been lost. The fact is that these two people in question here did not appreciate BTC at the time when the wrong move happened to them in life, and now they are crying for spilled milk.
What about the man who hid his backup in fishing poles and the owner of the apartment where he lived threw them in the trash?