He said “True story from my cousin”, and then went in to this account related in the first person - i.e., the “I” in that story was presented to us as Chinafan’s cousin speaking in the first person. Instead this is clearly something just grabbed from the Internet, and Chinafan hasn’t stuck around to face the music. So either Chinafan lied, or he believed what his cousin told him and his cousin lied. Either way, the one fact we do know about all this is that it didn’t happen to Chinafan’s cousin.