The mishnah brings the case as being exactly what happened. It does not say “a person comes and says that he fell” it says “one who fell”. So again, you are mis

The mishnah brings the case as being exactly what happened. It does not say “a person comes and says that he fell” it says “one who fell”. So again, you are misinterpreting the text to find supposed flaws and discard it. Again: one is not supposed to read a translation and think that they can interpret it. It does not work that way and this is exactly why some commenter here said that he tenses up.