The Smoking Gun has posted an extensive account, including police report and police crime scene photographs (on the jump), of the event in Conway we linked yesterday from the Log Cabin Democrat. A bogus caller talked a Holiday Inn Express employee into triggering the hotel’s sprinkler system. Thousands in damage followed, along with general panic.

To call it a “prank” call doesn’t quite get it. (A similar call was reported, but apparently not acted on, at a Little Rock hotel.) A witness called it an act of “domestic terrorism.”

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