There was always plausible deniability, but then, odd, eh, that Bush Guy would have Nim’s signs up on his land; or Nim would have the Bush Guy’s texture and stuff.

By making the Cornfield the humorous yuk yuk place that it is, with its Children of the Corn memes, rusty tractors, rows of ominous corn in the dark, and wierd 1950s bad-boy TV movies, the Lindens are letting us know that for “white collar crime” (as Torley once inimitably put it), they chuckle and put people in the funny Cornfield to let them know that they may be *this close* to getting an actual job at LL, instead of being on the AR list, but they need to polish their resume and polish their presentation a little more ; )

Looks like LL have kind of painted themselves into a corner there, doesn’t it? It’s now ‘safer’ to keep someone alive, providing they have a verified account, than kill them off and loose track of them utterly.
Yet another downside of unverified free accounts…