"There are suspects being investigated. They were "first timers" who registered with the convention and the hotel using their real names, and vanished immediately after the chlorine powder was discovered"
Doesn't make sense to me. Why would an attacker register using their real names? Why would they even register at all? Just walk right in and set the bomb off. The only way it makes sense is if a prank went horribly wrong. What kind of prank uses chlorine gas? Everyone knows how to make a stink bomb, it sure as hell doesn't involve chlorine! Some idiot really desperate to make pool's closed jokes on 4chan?
If this information is correct, there is another possibility. The police may be investigating the wrong people. Wouldn't surprise me, the state need to make it look as though they are doing something. Probably the majority of terror-related incarcerations are of innocent people, done to give the impression of security like the TSA. First-time con-goer who vanishes after nearly losing their life? They might be scared out of their minds.
It would be interesting indeed to see the security camera footage from the stairwell and nearby. They must have some way of matching the footage up against the registration list, photos from government ID database?
There is something we as a community can do to help with this. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE who rolled a camera any time during the hours 11pm through 1:30am, upload all your raw unedited footage. Tag it with mwff2014raw. 4000+ con-goers with smartphones has statistically got to provide a good deal of coverage. We won't know what happened IN the stairwell, but we can easily find someone running out the stairwell and the hotel.
If this increases the odds of catching the real perpetrator by just 1%, it will be worth hours of our time. If it prevents a vulnerable first-time con-goer being wrongly incarcerated and forced to admit guilt under a plea bargain, it will be worth everything. I will personally do anything to prevent this happening.
It's slightly scary there is no way of preventing this happening again. One thing we can do, is better preparedness. Determine type of gas, is it explosive? If not, don't evacuate, get the furs out onto the balconies. I wonder how many furs got injured from evacuating down the contaminated stairwell? It hurts to even think about it.
Sadly the next time something happens, it probably won't be gas. It's lucky I didn't throw up from the worry caused by this attack, I'll be needing all that vomit for the day when someone inevitably lets loose with a gun or a bomb.
Some more news?
"There are suspects being investigated. They were "first timers" who registered with the convention and the hotel using their real names, and vanished immediately after the chlorine powder was discovered"
Source - aceofgeeks dot blogspot dot fr/2014/12/the-attack-on-furfest-convention.html
Doesn't make sense to me. Why would an attacker register using their real names? Why would they even register at all? Just walk right in and set the bomb off. The only way it makes sense is if a prank went horribly wrong. What kind of prank uses chlorine gas? Everyone knows how to make a stink bomb, it sure as hell doesn't involve chlorine! Some idiot really desperate to make pool's closed jokes on 4chan?
If this information is correct, there is another possibility. The police may be investigating the wrong people. Wouldn't surprise me, the state need to make it look as though they are doing something. Probably the majority of terror-related incarcerations are of innocent people, done to give the impression of security like the TSA. First-time con-goer who vanishes after nearly losing their life? They might be scared out of their minds.
It would be interesting indeed to see the security camera footage from the stairwell and nearby. They must have some way of matching the footage up against the registration list, photos from government ID database?
There is something we as a community can do to help with this. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE who rolled a camera any time during the hours 11pm through 1:30am, upload all your raw unedited footage. Tag it with mwff2014raw. 4000+ con-goers with smartphones has statistically got to provide a good deal of coverage. We won't know what happened IN the stairwell, but we can easily find someone running out the stairwell and the hotel.
If this increases the odds of catching the real perpetrator by just 1%, it will be worth hours of our time. If it prevents a vulnerable first-time con-goer being wrongly incarcerated and forced to admit guilt under a plea bargain, it will be worth everything. I will personally do anything to prevent this happening.
It's slightly scary there is no way of preventing this happening again. One thing we can do, is better preparedness. Determine type of gas, is it explosive? If not, don't evacuate, get the furs out onto the balconies. I wonder how many furs got injured from evacuating down the contaminated stairwell? It hurts to even think about it.
Sadly the next time something happens, it probably won't be gas. It's lucky I didn't throw up from the worry caused by this attack, I'll be needing all that vomit for the day when someone inevitably lets loose with a gun or a bomb.