the heist plan involved setting small fires to distract emergency response. He apparently used APSA as (so to speak) an experiment to test the response times of the firefighters. (He was arrested and convicted for a subsequent round of experimental arsons, but IIRC not for the APSA round.)
Wait! Was the same guy responsible for the APA fire in 2005 or 2006? Also in DC. Someone started a small fire with a cigarette, in the elevator lobby on the 2nd floor, iirc.
Holy shit whaaaat
I remember showing up to my 8AM panel and being very confused about what was going on
Well that’s a very exciting conference!
If I'm going to light an academic conference on fire, it won't be as a way of distracting people from other crime. Just saying.
Doesn't sound like he workshopped that plot.
So you’re saying this was a field experiment?
Are you trying short, experimental fiction?
Maybe a different political scientist was taking advantage of his presence to run their own experiments, knowing he would likely take the blame.