Epic hobo you say??
For example, as a six year old boy, Timmy was thrust on to the cold and hard streets by his unloving and undeserving parents. Any deserving parents would have sold their kid on Craigslist, but that is another story.
In order to survive, Timmy found himself having to catch live rats. Further, because all the metal barrels suitable to a proper hobo-fire were already claimed by other, or in some cases groups of hobos; Timmy was forced to eat his rats after he caught them, raw. After 4 years of catching rats, Timmy graduates to catching and eating cats, soon then on to dogs. By the time Timmy was 18, he could catch and kill one of the sewer aligators with his bare hands. However this too became a bore for Timmy until one day he watched a special on African animals though the window of a department store and saw his future open up before him. The next day he stole a ride on a UPS freight flight and he was on his way to Zimbabwe. 22 years later after he has been living off a diet of Lion and Elephant, as well as the occasional Rhino and our friend has officially become an Epic Hobo.