Turtle won't drop items.

I'm new to computercraft, this should be an easy fix but I don't know what's wrong.
The program is supposed to kill mobs(which works fine) and when it checks slot 16, if it has an item in that slot, it throws them in front of it. I can't get the turtle to drop the items from its inventory.

while true do
  turtle.attack()
  sleep(1)
  end 
if  turtle.getItemCount(16) <1 then
for i = 1, 16 do
turtle.select(i)
turtle.drop()
end
end

That code never checks line 16, because you've built a loop above your check which never ends.

Your check is also not looking to see if something is in the slot, but rather it's checking to see if it's empty. Less than one == zero, in this instance.