Whoops or WTF? (Oddwall)

A case of accidental self-immurement has surfaced in Germany! 

I own a Poe bobblehead.

Allegedly, a 64-year old fellow was working on his basement when he built a wall while standing on the wrong side of it, trapping himself in a subterraneous brick, door-less chamber. The incident, a la Edgar Allan's The Cask of Amontillado, has a happy ending.

The man weekended in the chamber until Monday, when he broke through another wall with a drill hammer into his neighbors' home... 


The nearby police station stated: "Whoops, you could say. He was on the wrong side of the wall when his work was finished." Whoops or WTF?

Suspicious components:
1. Who builds a solid wall to seal off a basement in the absence of a dead body?
2. Not breaking through the freshly built wall before the mortar dried
3. Conveniently, the man was armed with sustenance, a nice beir & vienerschnitzel no doubt
4. Breaking through into the neighbors' house instead of drilling into his own wall
5. Apparently, the man and his neighbors were prone to quibbling


This, on top of the fact, that in the ample time it takes to construct a wall, Herr Oblivious never realized his position in relation to the wall and self-corrected. 

Whether this was some sort of elaborate ruse to make headlines or piss off the neighbors or a drunken blunder, avoid becoming a statistic!


Don't be a DIY dimwit and subcontract out for any odd walls you want constructed.