Bert's comment was a bit over the top, but I can understand where it comes from - I get fed up with those jokers who every now and then come up with a phony scenario to play with people.

His evident assumption that this story was too extreme to be believable is quite welcome in a way. I'd had a sort of half worry, when I started the thread, that people would be posting saying how unfair we were in our reaction to the brother's perfectly sensible suggestions.