Brandon Webb, one of Kyle’s SEAL sniper school instructors, is one of two men who claim Kyle told them the story. According to their accounts, it wasn’t a hypothetical, and it wasn’t something Kyle heard about. It was something Kyle said he’d done. Webb said Kyle was so convincing that he believed him, and it was only after he began to think about it that he began to realize how implausible the story was.
Have you ever told a gullible friend a wild tale just because he was gullible and the little devil on your left shoulder convinced you it would be really funny? I haven’t done that in a few decades now but I have done that.