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A man is now touring American cities handing out free machetes to homeless people -- and, of course, one of his first stops was Austin. The 29-year-old aspiring influencer keeps a trunk full of 18-inch blades and calls it a public service. Platforms reward him with millions of views. Police, he says, told him it’s legal. Meanwhile, Austin already has an annual slate of machete attacks -- people slashed while walking dogs, waiting for buses, eating at taco trucks, passing downtown hotels, even hiking the trail. Four straight years, dozens injured, one killed. So now, alongside the city’s homegrown chaos, we apparently have a traveling machete distributor treating vulnerable people like props and volatile weapons like party favors.