[Eastbound]

My google search has plenty of links to others who are repeating the story. I’d bet money it’s just another story to enthuse folks.

[Eastbound]

That's stories written to 'use' folks, like in:

AB-use

CONF-use

AM-use

etc.

[Quix]

Plausible.

However, there is this pesky little matter of . . .

it fits OThuga’s style, M.O. preferences and inclinations

to a T as in Thug