Hello,
As I am the before said officer that was involved in the hostage situation, I'd like to (and was approved to) reply to your UBR.
Let me start off by giving you the definition of taking someone hostage. The source is, of course, Wikipedia.
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.
I will now provide pictures (that I have also provided at Noot Noot's UBR).
Picture 1:
This shows Noot Noot stating it was an accident. Sgt. Donut also stated this, but since the in-game chat only goes up to a certain limit, and my console was flooding with ''vertex errors'', it wiped out any evidence of him saying that.
My opinion: As said in Noot Noot's UBR. This wasn't an accident. Yes, you had the .44 on your body, so I will not say you took it out of your inventory. However, the fact that you've been heard saying you would shoot people up (
whilst you had that job description active) as well as you having to scroll/tap a number to get that .44 out, means it was no split-second decision/accident/mistake. You two just got boxed in by two PPVs and saw no way out. Perfectly fine to act on when having a different job (
if done correctly), but not as ''Chop Shop'' members.
Picture 2:
This shows you indeed taking me hostage, with Noot Noot in the background after putting the rope on me.
My opinion: You said you didn't take anyone hostage? Yikes. Either way, your job is set to ''Chop Shop''. Something I explained on Noot Noot's UBR; is quite an underground/secretive thing. It's not like you set up a Chop Shop on Grassy Field with some huge structure that instantly draws attention to LEOs, steal Govt. vehicles and plan to sell them back from that location. I am pretty sure you can figure out the description for ''Chop Shop'' yourself through Google or Wikipedia. It also isn't something that steals Govt. vehicles as parts from those type of vehicles are usually marked in a certain way and would be a pain in the bottom to get rid of/sell to anyone.
TL;DR:
As said on Noot Noot's UBR, you guys have had verbal warnings before. Not to forget that with the amount of hours you've got (
about 250+ hrs.), you should've all known better than this.