If there's a problem with this simple thought experiment then a statement from it could be quoted and shown what's wrong with it.

Since it's Saturday and I have some time I'll respond to this as well, just for the record. This is wrong in two ways:

(1) I did say what was wrong with the thought experiment. You just don't want to accept that what I said is right. Of course that's your decision to make, but the fact that you don't agree with my criticism doesn't mean I didn't make one.

(2) Your view of how things work in these kinds of arguments is backasswards. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. You are making an extraordinary claim: that the theory of General Relativity, which has been developed and refined and tested against evidence for almost a century now, and which has passed every test with flying colors, somehow has a basic error of logic in one of its fundamental principles. For a comprehensive study of how well tested GR is experimentally, see here:

http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2001-4/

The burden of proof is on you to back up this extraordinary claim. You don't do that by making or referring to a quick blog post that makes elementary errors and misstatements about what GR actually says. You do that the way Galileo and Einstein did it: by having extremely detailed knowledge of the theory you are attacking--knowing it better than its proponents--and by making sure that every single thing you say about that theory is correct according to its proponents. It's up to you to dot every i and cross every t and dig into the textbooks and the literature to make sure you are representing the theory correctly.

You have not even come close to doing all that, and neither has the author of the blog post. When I see elementary misstatements like the ones you and the blog post author have made, that tells me it's not even worth my time to read through the blog post in detail to try to figure out what's wrong with it, because it's not even wrong. That happens quite a bit on PF as well; the things you think are "rarely really answered" there are examples of the same kind of not even wrongness.

For the specific scenario under discussion here, this is what extraordinary evidence would look like: you would be able to construct, in detail, the local inertial frame in question, centered around the event of an infalling observer just crossing the horizon. By "construct, in detail", I mean you would be able to draw a spacetime diagram of it showing all the curves of interest: the horizon itself, the worldlines of all objects, curves of constant radial coordinate r, etc. You would also be able to exhibit the mathematical transformation from the coordinates in the local inertial frame to and from a global coordinate chart, such as the Painleve chart. And you would be able to exhibit the mathematical equations that give the size of the local inertial frame, and demonstrate, mathematically, that the event of two cloud particles crossing (one that starts inside the horizon and one that starts outside) must happen within that size. (When I do this computation, I find that the crossing event cannot happen within the LIF--the distance that would be required for the two particles to meet is much, much larger than the distance the LIF can cover. If you want to prove me wrong, first you have to get to that point, and you have given me no evidence that you have done so.)