I listened to a This American Life podcast about him last night. Sent from my iPhone
> On Feb 9, 2021, at 6:45 PM, Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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... >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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