i have been held hostage in a store robbery situation.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A hostage is a person or entity which is held by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against war. However, in contemporary usage, it means someone who is seized by a criminal abductor in order to compel another party such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government to act, or refrain from acting, in a particular way, often under threat of serious physical harm to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum. A person who seizes one or more hostages is known as a hostage-taker; if the hostages are present voluntarily, then the receiver is known as a host. The English word \"hostage\" derives from French \"ostage\", modern \"otage\", from Late Latin \"obsidaticum\" (Medieval Latin \"ostaticum, ostagium\"), the state of being an \"obses\" (plural \"obsides\"), \"hostage\", from Latin \"obside\u014d\" (\"I haunt / frequent / blockade / besiege\"), but an etymological connection was later supposed with Latin \"hostis\" (\"stranger,\" later \"enemy\"). This long history of political and military use indicates that political authorities or generals would legally agree to hand over one or usually several hostages in the custody of the other side, as guarantee of good faith in the observance of obligations.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "i have been held hostage in a store robbery situation. Do you know anyone who's had this happen to them?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "not personally but i know that they are usually held by belligerent parties or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah. The guy who had me was trying to get $10,000 cash. The vault was locked so he couldn't get at it."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "oh wow.. well in contemporary usage, someone is seized by a criminal abductor which sounds like what happened to you"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah, he had a gun so I didn't really want to try to get away. Do you know what's the earliest recorded hostage in history?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "there is a long history of political and military use where generals would legally agree to hand over one or usually several hostaes in the custody of the other side as a sign of good faith"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow that's interesting. I heard it happens a lot in Somalia."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "well somalia does have the longest coastline on Africa's mainland, and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plans and highlands"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, and they can take whole ships hostage sometimes for very large ransoms. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "yea well the fishing communities responded by forming armed groups to deter the invaders by hijacking commercial vessels"}]