That is the point bag8ger, why do you not see it?
That's the game, gentle frog, the shorter plans on its targets having to declare bankruptcy.
Then he would pick targets that can be bankrupted, wouldn't he? He certainly wouldn't pick targets that can't be bankrupted because they don't depend on the sale of shares for their livelihood.
The FIRST requirement for a candidate for a 'shorting to death' gambit, MUST BE a direct dependency of the company on it's stock price. In other words the company's very existence MUST be dependent on it's stock price. Only then can a company be safely 'shorted to death'. Any other situation, such as a company that does not need to sell it's own stock to survive would be avoided like the plague.