When the following headline popped up in my newsfeed on Facebook, I had to click it: «22 - pound pet cat holds family hostage until police arrive ``. (tulsapetsmagazine.com)
An overblown remake of William Wyler's 1955 film The Desperate Hours — itself based on the novel and stage play by Joseph Hayes — Cimino's Desperate Hours cast Rourke in the Humphrey Bogart role of a criminal on the lam who holds a suburban family hostage in their own home while he waits for his girlfriend to show up. (thedissolve.com)
A Bronx man accused of holding an Albany family hostage during a Dec. 23 standoff with police appears to have shot himself during the altercation. (bronxnewsnetwork.org)