WISCONSIN (WTAQ-WRN) — A 26 year old man charged with making a terrorist threat against UW Madison’s campus insists it was all a joke.
Thomas Hansen was charged Tuesday. A criminal complaint says the threat itself was made on February 23 on the social media site “YikYak.”
Hansen told investigators the series of posts came about after a girl canceled a date with him. Hansen first posted that because he got a haircut, the girl wouldn’t know what he looked like.
A second post commented on stopping dating and “sneaking guns” into “crowded school buildings.”
The third post specifically called out Bascom Hall, saying “don’t go” to the building “next week.”
Police ended up taking a “large revolver-style handgun” and two boxes of ammunition from his apartment.
