The Most Insane News Story You’ll See Today

Faline · #1 ● 02-04-2013, 02:37 PM

A local news report has made an online star of a hitchhiker who potentially saved the lives of three people from a crazed driver, thanks in some part to a hatchet.

Surfer Kai, who said he did not have a last name and was ‘straight out of Dogtown’, told KMPH-TV in Fresno, California, that a driver he had hitched a ride from deliberately crashed into a utility worker ‘because he was black’.

Two female bystanders also came to the aid of the stricken Pacific Gas and Electric Company worker, but the diver subsequently attacked them too.

Tanya Baker, who was attacked alongside her daughter, said the man kept on repeating that he was Jesus Christ ‘and was going to save all of us’.

Ms Baker credited Kai with saving her life after he attacked the driver, who is now in police custody, with a hatchet he was carrying.

‘If he had started driving that car round again there would have been a hell of a lot bodies round here,’ Kai said.

‘That woman was in danger; he just finished what looked like at the time killing somebody, and if I hadn’t done that he would have killed more people.’

The utility worker is not thought to have sustained any life threatening injuries in the incident.

The raw footage of Kai’s interview has been watched tens of thousands of times on YouTube, with commenters praising him as a hero and hailing his ‘smash, smash, smash’ description of his dramatic intervention with a hatchet.