Sadly this doesn't surprise me....I've seen and met some REALLY stupid people over the years. I once had a kid call me and ask me how to get out a broken valve cover bolt and figuring he had just overtightened it I told him and he called me back and thanked me.....a little while later he called back again and said "Help, me I broke another one!"....I asked him what he was doing and he then said "I'm torqing them to spec" to which I replied "WHAT! and just what "Spec" is that....he said "90 ft/lbs".....I then said "Put the tools down and back away from the car!!!". This idiot was using a torque wrench trying to tighten the poor little 1/2 X 20 bolts into the valve covers.
Even funnier was a week later he called me and asked me why his valve cover gaskets were leaking!!!
Then we had a local guy with an '85 IROC Camaro who had this solution for his transmission mount.....I guess chevy guys CAN be that ignorant.
This same guy claimed that his car would do 213MPH
It goes on and on...I've got a file of pictures as well that I call my "F-stick files".