Frank, you're sort of our expert on primitive psychology, could this DUmmie have created this entire story just to work in the fact that it has a recycling bin in order to gain some Algore points from the DUmmies?
Nah.
Now, I'm not God, and so don't know for sure the actual facts of the story.
The diet cola primitive allegedly is seriously ill, but hanging on.
People like that--all people, from decent and civilized people to the primitives on Skins's island--tend to magnify unimportant events.
Right now, I don't feel like posting that I broke a shoelace.
But if I was aggrieved by something, I might do that.
I suspect the diet cola primitive was just having one of those "attention whore" moments.
Of course, the "recycling" bit is a nice touch, but probably that's all it is, a nice little touch.