Dumbest home game rule ever?

I was at a game and one of the guys running it was still in the game. There where 12 players left on 2 tables and the final table was going to be 10 players. 1 of the players on his table busted out and he said that the final 5 on his can stop playing and wait for one of the players on the other table to bust out. His reasoning was the blinds come to fast at 5 players.