# Kai- the hatchet guy hero from a few months ago in big trouble. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579 "2013-05-17T03:14:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/1 "2013-05-17T03:14:50Z")
I can’t seem to find the old thread. You’d think searching on hatchet would be easy. 😛 For some reason I’m getting all kinds of ridiculous hits for hatchet. Threads that should never have that word in them. Somewhere we got a thread on this guy from a few months ago. I’m sick of trying to find it. He saved the day from some lunatic with a Jesus complex attacking a PG&E utility worker. Kai used his trusty hatchet. Now Kai is up for murder. Some dude he was staying with on the East coast. Probably the same hatchet. I bet. What a damn shame. But, Kai seemed pretty unstable in [his hero interview](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jesus-hatcheted-drifter-bizarre-roadside-scene-article-1.1255491). > **[Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker nearly slept on my couch, says Daily News...](https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/brush-kai-hatchet-man-article-1.1346184)** > > Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker went from a folk hero to alleged murderer overnight. And he almost spent the night before the murder on my couch. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/2 "2013-05-17T03:28:30Z")
I saw the error in the thread title three seconds after I hit post. Nothing I can do about it now except curse. Anyway, Kai gets another 15 minutes of fame except this time it’ll cost him his freedom. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/3 "2013-05-17T04:43:54Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I saw the error in the thread title three seconds after I hit post. Nothing I can do about it now except curse. I, on the other hand, was able to fix it with my UNFATHOMABLE MOD POWERS. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/4 "2013-05-17T05:38:28Z")
Mods to the rescue. Thanks! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/5 "2013-05-17T05:47:02Z")
[Possibly relevant Cracked article.](http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/3-reasons-real-heroes-tend-to-be-weirdos/) ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/6 "2013-05-17T06:30:13Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I saw the error in the thread title three seconds after I hit post. Nothing I can do about it now except curse. I see people say this all the time, but unless something has changed recently (HA!), it isn’t true. You CAN change the thread title within the same 5-minute window that you can edit the post in. You just have to hit “Edit” then go to “Advanced” and voila! ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/7 "2013-05-17T11:20:31Z")
yeah, it sucks. a few days before this he was talking about how he had been drugged and raped by someone. I’m not sure if the guy he killed is the same person who did that or not. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/8 "2013-05-17T13:15:41Z")
Damn juggalos. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/9 "2013-05-17T13:17:16Z")
_“Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker nearly slept on my **cough** , says Daily News reporter”_ Well done, Daily News. Was it the editor he killed? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/10 "2013-05-17T15:22:15Z")
The killing might have been avoided if the reporter had given Kai a safe place to stay for a few days. Instead he stayed somewhere that he was drugged and raped . That doesn’t excuse pulling out the hatchet. Kai’s freewheeling days on the road are over. kai must have met all sort hitching around the country. He had gotten a ride with that Jesus complex guy. Then the guy gets all freaky and attacks the utility worker. ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/11 "2013-05-17T15:38:43Z")
> [@](#): > > the old thread Is [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=681322) it? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/12 "2013-05-17T15:54:33Z")
More complete article on Kai. He’s spent the last few months meeting and mooching off his internet fans. Sounds like he’d had quite a few good times with fans. > **[Hitchhiker and former web hero wanted for murder of lawyer, 73, arrested in...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325863/McGillvary-Kai-hatchet-wielding-homeless-hitchhiking-Internet-celebrity-arrested-murder-lawyer.html)** > > Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, 34, better known as 'Kai the hatchet-welding hitchhiker' after saving three people from a crazed driver, has been arrested in Philadelphia on charges of murdering a New Jersey attorney. Thanks for finding the original thread. 😃 It was eluding my searches last night. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/13 "2013-05-17T16:00:39Z")
Well the man loves his hatchets ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kai-the-hatchet-guy-hero-from-a-few-months-ago-in-big-trouble/658579/14 "2013-05-17T16:26:20Z")
“You think you’re Jesus Christ? HAH! I’m Og, and Og SMASH SMASH SUH-MASH!”