"I can certainly entertain the manipulation idea. And the 35k dump/wall on a Sunday was odd in the extreme. I do not think that it was eaten by its owner, is all, for the reasons I have stated. Thanks for this great thread, btw. Not sure how it got this big before I noticed it"
This type of discussion/conjecture is damn' useful for recognizing the symptoms the next time it happens.
Not to mention entertaining. Since we all want to know, and none of us are likely to ever know, we might as well knock around whatever ideas occur.