In 2013, a senior university administrator where I worked “joked” that - to garner more attention to our research - my team should imprison me & the 1 other woman in a basement. This was the same week in 2013 that national news focused on the 3 female victims kidnapped, abused & imprisoned in an Ohio house for over a decade. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Castro_kidnappings)
This person was a former political appointee now at the university. Everyone went silent, but no one responded.