Foo Fighter said:
I find it sad that people like this get so far without being guests in a nice hotel with soft wall paper etc.
For that to happen, the people around them would have to conclude that they're nuts. But there is a multi-level problem with that. firstly, these sort of things seem to generally pop up in sort of the "backwards" rural areas... places where they have access to modern tools and materials, and see aircraft with some regularity, but the actual science behind how things work is lacking.
And then at another level... here you've got people with actual college educations denigrating "western" science in favor of "decolonized" science which includes calling down lightning bolts on your enemies via black magic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14
In such an environment, someone slapping together the worst helicopter ever is hardly going to be considered crazy.