Story help

[carsonshepherd]

Say you're trying to get into see someone in a hospital but they're being guarded - not as a prisoner but for their own protection because they're a key witness in a high-profile case. How would you get in?

(This is my second-to-last chapter so all help appreciated....)

 

[cloudy]

Say you're trying to get into see someone in a hospital but they're being guarded - not as a prisoner but for their own protection because they're a key witness in a high-profile case. How would you get in?

(This is my second-to-last chapter so all help appreciated....)

dress as a doctor or nurse.

 

[BlackShanglan]

dress as a doctor or nurse.

Yes. Or a janitor or similar - someone with a reason to move around the building. Janitor has the advantage that no one will grab you and pull you in to assist in an emergency resuscitation.

Shanglan

 

[carsonshepherd]

But how would you get the doctor/nurse clothes? Huh???

 

[Wildcard Ky]

Buy one of those phony FBI badges off the internet. Walk up to the guard, flash the badge, tell them you're special agent Shepard of the FBI and march straight through the door.

Remember, the key is act confident.

 

[cloudy]

But how would you get the doctor/nurse clothes? Huh???

Couldn't you buy scrubs at a medical supply store?

Or, maybe they could break into one of the locker rooms.....

(carry a clipboard, and look official, and you can go anywhere. )

 

[carsonshepherd]

Buy one of those phony FBI badges off the internet. Walk up to the guard, flash the badge, tell them you're special agent Shepard of the FBI and march straight through the door.

Remember, the key is act confident.

This is spur-of-the moment. No time for buying anything or planning. Just got get there and do it. Yeah, acting confident is a must.

 

[3113]

How high profile is the case?

Say you're trying to get into see someone in a hospital but they're being guarded - not as a prisoner but for their own protection because they're a key witness in a high-profile case. How would you get in?

Very tough IF the guards are on their guard. That means they know all the nurses, doctors and orderlies that are going to be visiting the patient AND they know all relatives, friends, lawyer types who might be allowed to visit the patient.

Two questions:
1) WHY do you want to visit the patient? To talk...or to kill? And if to kill, does it matter if YOU get caught?

2) What resources do you have? Are there windows and are you fit enough to climb/use ropes to get in through those windows? Can you set off a false "code blue" or, better yet, spike the patient's meds so you can slip in with the emergency crew that would rush in to rescue him? and come rushing in there with equiptment (and then hide out in the bathroom till everyone's gone?).

For that matter, can you disguise yourself as one of those relatives, lawyers or doctors? Can you bribe or blackmail a doctor into passing you off as a nurse or resident to be trusted?

There are ways--but what resources the person trying to get in has, and how well the patient is guarded also matter. If the guards are sloppy or lazy or can be drugged, well, that makes it easier as well. How high profile is the case?

 

[carsonshepherd]

The case has gone national and involves corruption at rather high levels.

 

[carsonshepherd]

How about a distraction of the guard?

 

[BlackShanglan]

I'll argue for janitor:

(1) Needs less in the way of special clothing, and you can swipe any bucket, cloth, or mop left unattended.

(2) Attracts less attention than any other job. People pay attention to what doctor treats the patient and which nurses they have seen before; hardly anyone, even security people, notice which janitor is on shift.

Your major liability, of course, is that they're not likely to let a janitor into the patient's room itself. But if he's willing to settle for getting to the door and then making a lunge for it ...

Shanglan

 

[BlackShanglan]

How about a distraction of the guard?

Fire alarm? Especially as it's likely to set off sprinklers. If it doesn't, you can always try the Ripley hold-up-a-lighter trigger.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I'll argue for janitor:

(1) Needs less in the way of special clothing, and you can swipe any bucket, cloth, or mop left unattended.

(2) Attracts less attention than any other job. People pay attention to what doctor treats the patient and which nurses they have seen before; hardly anyone, even security people, notice which janitor is on shift.

Your major liability, of course, is that they're not likely to let a janitor into the patient's room itself. But if he's willing to settle for getting to the door and then making a lunge for it ...

Shanglan

And then maybe distracting a guard....

enlisting the help of a nurse?

 

[The_Fool]

Doctor's scrubs, rubber gloves, face mask, lubricant, fleet enema.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Doctor's scrubs, rubber gloves, face mask, lubricant, fleet enema.

I'm sorry, but this is the "story help" thread, not the "vacation preparations" thread.

 

[The_Fool]

I'm sorry, but this is the "story help" thread, not the "vacation preparations" thread.

Shanglan, I'd hate to see what you would do with a blood pressure cuff...

 

[carsonshepherd]

I'm sorry, but this is the "story help" thread, not the "vacation preparations" thread.

Ahahahah. You don't wanna know how many of these things I really do own....
all of them *cough*

 

[BlackShanglan]

Shanglan, I'd hate to see what you would do with a blood pressure cuff...

That's all right. I don't mind if you keep the blindfold on.

 

[3113]

And then maybe distracting a guard....

enlisting the help of a nurse?

Again. HOW desperate is this person to get into that room and DOES it matter to them if they get caught?

If VERY desperate and they don't care of they get caught, AND they have a weapon or are willing to use a weapon, they can easily put a gun to a nurse's back (or trusted doctor), act the part of orderly there to help said nurse out and get into the room that way.

SEE, here's your real problem. If the case is THAT high profile and the patient that much in danger--he might well have a whole floor or at least the end half of a floor to himself. The guards are vigilant. The people allowed in that room KNOWN down to the orderlies and janitors.

Now, if we're talking an assassin, he might kill some unguarded person down the hall and as the blood runs out of the room and people converge on it...then he can slip behind the distracted guards.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Again. HOW desperate is this person to get into that room and DOES it matter to them if they get caught?

If VERY desperate and they don't care of they get caught, AND they have a weapon or are willing to use a weapon, they can easily put a gun to a nurse's back (or trusted doctor), act the part of orderly there to help said nurse out and get into the room that way.

SEE, here's your real problem. If the case is THAT high profile and the patient that much in danger--he might well have a whole floor or at least the end half of a floor to himself. The guards are vigilant. The people allowed in that room KNOWN down to the orderlies and janitors.

Now, if we're talking an assassin, he might kill some unguarded person down the hall and as the blood runs out of the room and people converge on it...then he can slip behind the distracted guards.

No no no. He's determined to get into the room, but not to hurt the patient.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Ahahahah. You don't wanna know how many of these things I really do own....
all of them *cough*

As if I couldn't guess.

 

[3113]

No no no. He's determined to get into the room, but not to hurt the patient.

Ah. Well that makes a difference. I assume he doesn't want to hurt anyone? Or use anyone (i.e., no gun to a doctor's back? Or does he mind having an audience?)

What resouces does he have? Money to bribe with? Bribe an orderly. Lay on a gurney under a sheet as if sedated and on his way back from the operating room. Orderly stops pushing the gurney by or near the patient's door. Guards distracted, slip of the gurney into the room.

 

[carsonshepherd]

*waves wildly* Hey, remember me, the person who needs help finishing a novel?

 

[carsonshepherd]

Ah. Well that makes a difference. I assume he doesn't want to hurt anyone? Or use anyone (i.e., no gun to a doctor's back? Or does he mind having an audience?)

What resouces does he have? Money to bribe with? Bribe an orderly. Lay on a gurney under a sheet as if sedated and on his way back from the operating room. Orderly stops pushing the gurney by or near the patient's door. Guards distracted, slip of the gurney into the room.

*ponders*

This is really not bad.

 

[3113]

*ponders*

This is really not bad.

Whose your post-op daddy?