Hostage Negotiation Don'ts

As Hostage Taker:

• Demand to speak only with FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
• Have one of the hostages hold your gun while you make a quick trip to the bathroom.
• Let one hostage go to the bathroom. When he doesn't return, send the others to see what's taking him so long.
• Agree to let the hostages go, after doing so, make you demands.
• Rig the building to explode if someone tries to go through the door, then remember that you forgot to lock your car and leave the room.
• Confuse the detonator for your explosive booby-traps with your garage door opener.
• Tell the negotiator that you'd rather choke on tear gas than let the hostages go.
• Allow one of the hostages to win possession of your gun because of a paper-rock scissors tournament.
• Forget your gun at home.
• Run away bawling like a baby when one of your hostages calls you a "meanie".
• Ask the negotiator to tell your fiancee that this is all a joke and would she marry you.

As Negotiator:

• Ask the hostage taker if he/she would like to go to dinner after the stand-off.
• When hearing the demands suddenly yell into the phone, "It all you you you! What about my needs?!"
• When you call the hostage taker, tell him you'd like a large thick crust pepperoni and snicker loudly.
• Show up stoned and do anything at all.
• When the hostage taker lists his demands yell into the phone "La la la la! I can't hear you!"
• Mention how much income tax the hostage taker will have to pay if he/she gets the F-15 he/she wants.
• Tell the hostage take that you think Rosanne Barr should play him in the TV movie of the stand-off.
• Tell the hostage taker you think it'd be really cool if a hostage came flying out of a 52nd story window.
• Tell the hostage taker that he must convert to hindu if he wants you to deal with him.
• When the hostage taker agrees to let the hostages go tell him, "You're never gonna be on COPS with a wimp attitude like that."