Quoted from bert How the f*ck do you kill somebody with a jackhammer?

By pinning them down with the forks of a forklift and hammering away at their face of course!


I can see it now.  The shaking of the jackhammer.  The shaking of the body as it's face slowly disinegrates into nothingness.  Our hero being splattered with blood as he screams like a madman.  When all is said and done, and nothing but a mess remains, the hobo sweeps in and steals the terrorists jewelry.


Mike

those are interesting ideas that I'll take into consideration as I hadn't fully developed my idea, however the following is what I had in mind for the story but it's not fully worked out and I may be looking over some glaring plot holes, so feel free to point them out

John is trapped in the building and forced to plant the virus dispensers around. The police are outside and are unwillingly forced to keep him in as they are told not to let him out alive therefore they threaten to shoot him if he gets out. After John learns of the viruses he is forced to plant them throughout the hotel. I was going to have him be part of the company that manufactured the weapon so the terrorist is now showing him what it can do by making him use it against his own country (a little bit of twisted irony). To add further salt to his wounds the bomber has kidnapped his daughter and tells him that once the dispensers have been planted they will negotiate a deal for his safety. Obviously John doesn't belive him as he could just go tell the police where he planted them but for his daughters sake, he plants them anyway. Towards the end, the police learn of a bomb threat somewhere else (where all the hotel members have been evacuated too, I was thinking a sports arena like madison square garden) which is where the real bomb is. The police then rush over there realizing the hotel was a diversion. That was the bombers plan as now they forget all about the hotel and the virus dispensers will be overlooked (the terrorists never planned on letting the police find out about Madison square or wherever it is. They thought they'd be too preoccupied with figuring out why the hell the bomber left one guy inside, then when the real bomb goes off realize they were tricked and think that the first hotel meant nothing). The ending I was thinking of was that John was kidnapped and drugged with something and he only has so long to live (hence why he doesn't remember the past few days). So by the time he gets out he doesn't have long enough to tell the police. However, the hobo guy who I was going to set up as you thinking he is the bad guy eventually tells the police that it wasn't a diversion and that something with John was going on in the regular hotel.

That is about all I had, I hope it makes sense. It's alot different from your idea Mike, but like I said, I am going to take all ideas into consideration as I don't have the story fully developed. I just like the beginning that I built up and that follows it.

Thanks for the comments so far,

-Matt

The beginning you have so far is fine, to a point, but I think you have to do something about the police.   It just doesn't make sense for them to allow themselves to be forced to keep someone in a building like that.  If it's because the building will be blown up, I think they would evac the general area first and then worry about getting John out.

i have the general area evacuated but i still think the police would do all they could to stop a hotel in downtown new york from exploding, secondly, i added information stating that the bomber took credit for a car bomb the night before so the police know he is not bluffing, thats why they are so adament in sticking to the demands of john not getting out alive, i think it makes sense for the hotel to be a diversion as then the police are so busy trying to figure out the puzzle of why one man is left inside that they forget about the location the evacutees are at which is where the real bomb is located
that is the general plot i have so far but again ill take into consideration all suggestions for this project, it's my first venture into the suspense/thriller/action genre so i dont have it all figured out, thats just what i have so far