Of course they saw it as Ne, they are Si doms... Si doms dont seek to understand for understandings sake... they think that Ne = coming up with new info, they are only half right. It comes up with new info, tangent wise. Like if in your example you said, then her redneck father came out and shot me, using a 22. caliber bullet, which was invented for killing squirrels and small vermin, so I assume he assumed I was a vermin, kind of like how jews were called vermin by the nazis, and killed often with a 22 caliber bullet shot to the head, and in Israel they use 22 caliber bullets to kill terrorists and terrorists utilize cars like mine to drive suicide bombers around, and isnt that funny? I am a terrorist!
And thats not even a good example, I am not good at Ne-ing like that, but thats the way it seems to work, my best friend for a while was ENFP he lived for Family guy, the guy who makes that show is also ENFP, Peter Griffon is an ESFP/ENFP combo.