Woman Arrested for Calling in Fake Threat Says She Just Wanted to ‘Trauma Bond’ With Coworkers

If you’re not meeting them for after-work drinks, how else are you going to get close?

By Braden Bjella

Published 2 months ago in Facepalm

Earlier this week, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey went into lockdown after someone reported an ongoing incident on the grounds. It turns out, thankfully, that the report was fake — but that it was called in by an employee who just wanted to “trauma bond” with her coworkers.


Per CBS News, a woman named Malika Brittingham initially sent the fake report via text to someone else, causing the lockdown. While she initially denied that she was the source of the fake report, she eventually confessed.


According to the complaint, Brittingham told investigators she did all this because she had been “ostracized by her co-workers and hoped that their shared experience in response to an active shooter would allow them to ‘trauma bond.’”


Now, she’s been arrested. If you wanted trauma, you got it!

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