Rule interpretation question..

[LevinJ]

A couple things...
(1) thank you for the constructive responses.
(2) My question was mostly hypothetical, the question occurred to me after a different event that got me thinking about it (I just took my law school final exams, that's what law students do).
(3) After re-reading my post, I recognize I did not properly articulate what really happened until a later response. The guy was not doing the timer trick. He was of the belief that you do not kill the PH [[AT ALL]] to make the AC spawn. Thus, he was "camping" it but killing nothing.