I listened to a This American Life podcast about him last night.

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> On Feb 9, 2021, at 6:45 PM, Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 
> You should read up on our local celebrity true life detective Jay J. 
> Armes...his hands were blown off by those left by railroad tracks...
> He rescued Marlon Brando's son who was kidnapped using Cheater Bella , a 
> Vietnam era helicopter pilot I believe from Baja California...he also started 
> as an assassin on Hawaii Five 0...
> He was a pretty good county commissioner...
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021, 4:59 PM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote:
>> When I was young they had posters at grade school showing us what blasting 
>> caps looked like and to tell a grup if we saw any.  I think there may have 
>> been tv commercials too.  Just piqued my interest.  Maybe it was due to 
>> growing up in logging country in Oregon.  Did they do this in other places 
>> too?
>>  
>> I found the lock open on an explosives locker at the county gravel pit and 
>> played with caps and sticks of dynamite.  I never had the guts to actually 
>> try to set it off but I took them out and messed with them.
>>  
>> Couple of farm kids in the area got into their dads caps and it killed one 
>> of them and blinded the other. 
>>  
>> I wonder when this ceased to be a thing? 
>>  
>> The big display boards they brought into JR High showing all the different 
>> kinds of drugs piqued my interest too...
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