I saw those commercials on TV in NW Indiana / the Chicagoland area. On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 7:58 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote:
> 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 <losguyswirel...@gmail.com> > 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 <af@af.afmug.com> 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 >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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