[Rippersnapper]

The Croes on the radio site looks a lot like Steve. Great possibility these two Croes are related.

We never did get a good answer for why he chose to lie for strangers, though I suspect he was hoping for some sort of tip reward.

Maybe he was hoping to draw attention and now the negative attention for the islanders to band together.?

[the Deejay]

One can have a zillion guesses
as to what his motives were.

I think he was just trying to
get his name into a hot story.