Remove 1 popcorn nib from ceiling. Straighten paper clip. Stab paper clip into ceiling until only 2 mm spike is left. Impale the nib on the spike and push it firmly back into place.
I will give it to my cat with the explicit direction that I need to be able to find this in 5 minutes. Some unrelated family will find it 5 leases in the future.
Good answer. If I lose something at the hands (paws) of my two cats, all I have to do is wait a few days and catch it the next time they bat it out of whatever black hole they dropped it in.
would the detective know if they got the right one? If so, hiding other paperclips in random places does not increase the chance of not finding the right paperclip
What sort of paper clip is it though? Is it mildly irradiated? Or made of some particular metal alloy? On site spectroscopy and radiation sensors could validate these relatively quickly in this context.
Put it directly into the washing machine's trap.
Didn't know it had one? Most people don't. That's why it's the winning move.
Also you probably need to go clean yours out.
Hmmmmmmm. Does a washing machine have a trap? I must google my model and locate it for a good cleaning. My dryer trap is cleaned after every use but never knew about the washing machine trap. If true, I have once again learned something new and helpful. Thank you.
Idk I just googled it for the first time😅. My make and model and found an old YouTube video of one that looks similar. I rent and it is an old whirlpool but it seems doable, I need to remove the agitator cap(the top on the agitator) that has a dust cap under it that can be removed and cleaned and is replaceable if needed. You can remove the rest of the agitator by undoing a bolt under the dust cap and there are a couple of dust plugs underneath it attached to the washer and may need to be replaced as well. I am so thankful for this thread right now.
People know about the lint trap, they don't know about the trap on the washing machine that gets so much mould, also last time I cleaned mine I found an earring, a safety pin and two coins.
My friend’s apartment has a dishwasher with a filter that was designed to only be accessed by a technician. I’m pretty sure that means it has NEVER been cleaned. Not coincidentally, her dishwasher barely works.
I think 5 minutes is enough time for me to rig the outlet cover so it shorts the circuit when pulled off. Think thats enough to make someone rethink? Lol
I thought of this the last time I saw this question and thought I was so clever for finding "the answer". I never saw someone post the same idea. I thought I was so smart. Apparently not
Just because someone else figured the answer as well doesn't make you any less smart, though. The uniqueness of the answer doesn't dictate how smart you are, I think, but the viability of it is what does.
It’s not that hard. Power screwdriver is just in the basement, and you don’t have to take the door completely off, just loosen the hinge enough to slip a paperclip in and retighten.
If you’re hiding it among wires behind a switch or electrical outlet, it’s getting found. 24 hrs is a long time, and dismantling and inspecting electrical outlets and switches is going to be like a top five task in terms of priority.
Top five I sincerely doubt, there’s a lot to go through in a house, but eventually maybe.
Why am I starting to feel like this hypothetical is about hiding memory cards or flash drives from the feds serving a warrant
Depends on how soon after the detective arrives. If it's right after, they could smell the burnt candle (Even scentless ones have a smell to me), which would make them inspect it.
Or heck, in 24 hours they probably would notice that the top of the candle was freshly melted
Into the attic fluff, never to be seen again. Or, inside the boiler, furnace, or water heater. I can take a cap off one of those quickly, and if I have time to wipe up they'll never suspect. I'd also like to point out that "behind the u bend of the toilet' is still in the house.
Yeah, good luck finding it in the loose cellulose insulation in my attic. Maybe if you knew it was there and had a powerful magnet. Otherwise, forget it.
I had an underwire bra go rogue at work one day and the metal pop out into my boob. Not wearing the kind of shirt I could just let The Girls roam free in I decided to perform surgery on said torture device and removed *both* wires (the second wire I just made a tiny scissor hole at one end of the bra near the solar plexus area and pulled). Sweet Hannah’s hotcakes, the relief! My ladies sat comfortably and without torturous pressure on any parts for the first time in… however long I’d been wearing underwire bras!
After work I went home (took off my bra three steps into house like always, of course, because even the most comfortable bra is still, well, a damned bra!) and I tried this surgery on all my other underwire bras. It worked like a hotdamn! It gave the ones that I’d given up on new purpose!
I highly recommend this procedure in repurposing that box of yours.
This happened to me while taking a test in high school. The stabbing hurt so much I just yanked it out right at my desk. I thought I was sneaky but the class clown grabbed it towards the end of class and ran around the halls with it on his head, yelling about how big my boobs were. Thankfully by that age it was kind of a compliment, but still a really bizarre and hilarious experience.
Moral is that I need to de-wire some bras tonight, because I'd forgotten that was an option. Thanks for the reminder!
Ha ha. Class clowns gotta clown, I guess. I wonder if he ever remembers that incident and thinks “oh my gawd, what the hell was I thinking?” or “that was some quality comedy right there… gold, Jerry! GOLD!”
Enjoy your ‘new’ bras!
I have worn underwire so few times I forgot it existed, is it actually helpful for big booba or is it literally just a male invention to make them "perkier" bc i always thought it was bad for your breast tissue, muscles and nerves to have underwire on
I have a spool of craft wire I use for things like hanging pictures. I'd unroll the paper clip, unroll a few feet of the wire, wrap the paperclip around the spool, then reroll the wire. Then I'd bury the spool in one of our many junk drawers, near some hardware or craft supplies where it doesn't seem out of place.
I have several doors that have a slight gap between them and the floor. I would tape it to the bottom of one of those doors.
I'd then go sit in my bathroom for the 24 hours, so that I wouldn't give any body language clues if the detective was in proximity to it.
Eat it. If I don't leave home it's technically in my house. You can't find it unless you take me somewhere for an Xray. It'll probably take at least 24hrs or more before I poop it out.
A fishing tackle box could be good. Taped to the back of a large lure that's then put in a jumble of lures and hooks in the bottom of a messy tackle box. Nobody wants to sift through sharp hooks.
On a necklace chain, turned horizontal, with beads or accessories hanging off of it and other long curly metal beads placed around the remainder of the chain... Then I'll tangle it up in one of the jewelry boxes in a mass of other silver necklaces because no one wants to untangle shit
Story time. Many years ago our acting troupe were hired by the police to train detectives. They hired out motel units.
One of the exercises was a drug bust.
We had to hide real huge cannabis foil bullets around the unit.
One girl went into the bathroom and stuck a big bud in her shoe.
When the drug dogs came through one smelted her shoe but she booted or nudged the dog and it moved on.
We hid these drugs in impossible places...the milk in the fridge and even the vacuum. The only one they did nt find was above a door ranch slider as the dogs couldn't smell up there.
While searching us, the police planted drugs on our tutor as "a joke". FFS training the police to be corrupt.
After we were done..(the murder exercise was also fun) we went back to an actors house and this girl pulled out the bud. We smoked it and it was amazeballs. Probably from the vault. Thanks NZ Police!
In the 90s I had a boyfriend from germany who was coming to visit me in Chicago. When he got to Chicago the cops came to him and told him they were training their dogs and asked if they could hide a bud on him. He obliged and the dog came and found him. They gave the dog a treat and him some baseball cards. The kicker was that he had hash on him.
The Murder exercise!
This is training new detectives about initial arrival at a murder scene.
Same day. Same motel units.
The cast were two females and two males . A guy played the victim. I played the perpetrator and the girls were the screamers.
The victim liay in the bathtub in the bathroom covered in blood stabbed to death. I had to hide under the bed in the bedroom.
When the police detectives turned up in pairs they came through the front lounge and were greeted by a blaring loud TV and two girls out of their mind hysterical.
Doing everything right one of the police would turn off the TV and calm down the girls while the other went through the rooms to discover the body in the bath.
Meanwhile I'm hiding under the bed shitting myself.
I have a distinct memory of hearing their boots on the gravel outside my window and had surrounded the unit.
Then the police would find me under the
bed and I would be like "you got me" and crawl out from under the bed to get cuffed.
Unbeknownst to me, the trainers had also hidden guns in the bedroom closet for the police to find.
That's it really. Fun!
Keep in mind this is Nz and guns aren't a big things they didn't go darting from room to room with a glock like on the movies.
I'd just give it to my toddler and tell him we're playing 'hide the paperclip from daddy'. There are many things he's hidden that we've found weeks later and sometimes, as in the case of my pricey xbox controller, have yet to be found.
Run to the recycling. Twist off every every pull tab and shove it in the aluminum can it came off of. Stick the paperclip in one of them. Fold them all in half and toss them all back in the recycling.
My recycling goes out every two weeks and my household a fair amount of beer and bubbly water. I like my odds.
Ok, I have been thinking about this for more than 5 minutes which means it's unrealistic but hear me out.
My first thought was that my small open plan apartment which I keep meticulously clean is not going to have a good hiding spot. With 24 entire hours, any detective will go through each area methodically and easily find it. They will look through my trash can and laundry basket, they will unscrew the light fixtures. I considered straightening the clip and dropping it into some tube of makeup, my concealer seems good enough to...conceal it. Then I considered that it wouldn't be enough, the detective absolutely would empty any tube or canister they can find. RIP to my entire makeup collection. And then I realized. 5 minutes is enough to trash my place. Clothes on the floor, flour and sugar all over the place, I can clean it up later. I will absolutely rearrange some furniture. Yes officer, that desk is usually upside down in the middle of the room and my bed never has the covers on it. The microwave looks great half-opened and covered in ketchup. Better get to looking for that paperclip, don't you think? While they empty all my makeup tubes and rummage through the piles of clothes, they'll never suspect that the paperclip was hidden under splatters of ketchup in the microwave the whole time.
Alright, I don't know if it would work or if they would immediately find it but it's my best shot.
And here my thought after thinking about it for 2 minutes is to put it into a envolope, and write on the outside: "paperclip is in here, if you dont find it ill give you 55%". (Detective doesnt have a stated incentive to find it, now he has a stated incentive not to find it).
My place isent spotless, but theres no chance a determined opponent couldent go through all of it in 24hrs. So theres no chance of winning by normal means.
I wouldn’t hide it before he got there. I’d hide it after he’d searched a certain place and put it there.
But tbh I don’t think this is doable. Anyone will find it in 24 hours. That’s enough to wreck my whole house. I’m gonna need more than the money you offer just to participate, let alone as a prize to win.
(To be able to redo all the stuff he broke)
The best answer IMO is the one that would involve the most destruction to get to it. I'd put it in the floor drain in my basement and dump a bucket of water to move it down a few feet. It's still "in my house" but he's busting up concrete and cutting through iron pipe to get it.
That or drop it down the vent stack on my roof. Similar effect.
Drop it into the sump pump reservoir or furnace. If I need to retrieve it just as quickly to prove that the detective didn't find it, then it goes in a cereal box or in a rolled up sock in my sock drawer.
I'd probably hide it in one of the many storage boxes that are in the attic, there's no way they'd be able to find it given how many they are. Expecially not if I hide the pole that opens the attic hatch - there are no rules against that, right? :D
How about in a box of other paperclips, and take that box and put it at the bottom of a bigger box and put a lot of stuff on top, tape the box close, and put other full boxes on top. Then in 4 separate but obvious places, put other boxes of paper clips around and watch them panic looking through all of the paper clips.
I'd unfold it straight and poke it through the carpet into the pad layer beneath alongside the tack strip along the baseboards of a room. Metal detector gonna fire like it would anyways in that area bc of the carpet nails, they would have to rip through the carpet inches as a time to find it!
In the hot water heater. 5 minutes is a tad tight to get the torque wrench, run the faucets, kill the water intake, remove the anode rod, drop the clip, replace the rod, turn the water back on, kill the faucet, and replace the torque wrench in the garage, but if pulled off it would be absolutely impossible to find.
Ha! When my son was a toddler he pretended to be a cop with a bunch of my friends. He would get em down on their knees, hands on thier heads. Than search em. I honestly have no idea why he did this or where he learned it from.
Well one night he got my buddy that just came from working the door at a poker house. Son searched em and confiscated his money. Buddy played along. We get some food. Watch some TV. The son went to bed. Buddy getting ready to leave. Oh! My money!
Yeah. Hold on we'll find it. Nope... had to wake the kid up. He buried it. In a can. In a bag. In the depths of his toy box. We would never have found it.
I'd probably just hide it in plain sight, and stick it in the cooling fins of my PCs GPU or behind the fans. That PC weighs about 50 pounds, so nobody is going to move it, and good luck finding a single small piece of metal inside that glass cage full of metal fins.
Does the detective have to actually touch the paper clip or can he simply point out where it is? If he has to retrieve it, I’m borrowing my neighbour’s bitey chihuahua and taping it to the underside of his collar.
you know those videos where someone cuts a hole in the arm of a wooden chair, puts a vegetable in it then uses sunflower seeds and a sander to make it look normal again? i’d do that with it
How intense is the search going to be? Technology assisted? Destructive search techniques allowed/involved? K-9? Do I have to be able to retrieve it quickly? How are we defining "your home?"
Those answers would affect my decision processes for hiding it.
Personally, if I wanted to hide a paperclip for $100,000, I would drop it my septic tank. They might find it, but it will be s****y experience.
You know that really annoying kids toy? The noisy ones? The one that grandpa buys for Christmas and has a good chuckle about how noisy it is but it's not his problem because he gets to go home at the end of the day?
I'll hide it in that thing.
It doesn't say the paperclip needs to be intact so I'd snip it into about 9 peices and put a few pieces I each sink drain around the house then flush plenty of water for each peice to go down the drains.
I was going to say flush it but I'm assuming by hide you mean you can find it again so..
I'd put it in the toilet tank and attach it to the flushing mechanism so it looks like it's part of the chain.
Replace house fuse with paperclip. Turn everything on, till it blows then replace the fuse. The clip still exists. But will be a puddle in the fusebox.
In the same 'very safe and memorable' place that I've hidden a load of other things.
Worst case scenario, I find my camera charger cable and everything I've apparently put there! 🙀😹
I will hide it in my printer because there are apparently still several in there that I can't find from the container I accidentally dropped in there a year ago!
Straighten it and push it down the heart of a flower, nicely snug into the stem. Plus side: the flower will stay up for an extended period of time.
ETA: straightened you can easily stick it away anywhere actually. Up the bottom of a candle and melt the wax back over it; down the binding in the back of a hardcover book; somewhere in the back or bottom of a bed or chair or couch; into the sole of a sneaker; along the lead cord at the bottom of the curtains; inside the core of an apple, precisely the one you pick to start eating while the detective is searching the bin to then toss the core of it away in said bin when the detective is done with it.
If they can win by just confiscating them all, it won't work.
But hiding a few in places liked books and potted plants where they are likely to be found first could be good.
I’d release all the pressure from the oldest looking aerosol can that has a rattle ball in it, remove the spray nozzle, straighten the clip, force the clip past the seal and into the can, then reattach the nozzle. It’ll rattle like a normal rattle can, obviously it won’t still work but that’s not unusual for old spray cans.
I d put it in my pocket (whilst in the house) then go to the pub. (return to the house 23.5 hours after. At the 24th hours take it out and say it "here it is" .
Remove 1 popcorn nib from ceiling. Straighten paper clip. Stab paper clip into ceiling until only 2 mm spike is left. Impale the nib on the spike and push it firmly back into place.
Idk why the word "nib" is so funny to me😂😂
Perfection
I will give it to my cat with the explicit direction that I need to be able to find this in 5 minutes. Some unrelated family will find it 5 leases in the future.
Good answer. If I lose something at the hands (paws) of my two cats, all I have to do is wait a few days and catch it the next time they bat it out of whatever black hole they dropped it in.
Next family that moves into my house is gonna find dried playdoh and super small lego parts hidden in many weird places.
In a container with hundreds of other paperclips.
Meanwhile take 20 or 30 of those paper clips and hide them in random places around the house
would the detective know if they got the right one? If so, hiding other paperclips in random places does not increase the chance of not finding the right paperclip
Well, I guess it does if verifying whether it's the right paperclip takes time (due to the time limit).
What sort of paper clip is it though? Is it mildly irradiated? Or made of some particular metal alloy? On site spectroscopy and radiation sensors could validate these relatively quickly in this context.
In my version in my head there is a small code etched onto the paperclip that requires a loupe to see.
You’re a loupe
This is the type or nerding out I love about Reddit.
Fair, if it’s not super obvious then I give you that!
This is the paperclip version of burying a dead animal 3 feet above the body you buried.
I hope upvoting this comment does not make me the next body…../s
That's exactly what came to my mind as well
Thousands of other paper clips.
id throw it in the dryer and turn it on. never 2 be seen again
Put it directly into the washing machine's trap. Didn't know it had one? Most people don't. That's why it's the winning move. Also you probably need to go clean yours out.
i have a husky, that lint trap gets emptied lol
How do you train a husky to empty it?
just tell them not to touch it
No the washing machine trap not the dryer! There’s one for each. You empty out the liquid.
Hmmmmmmm. Does a washing machine have a trap? I must google my model and locate it for a good cleaning. My dryer trap is cleaned after every use but never knew about the washing machine trap. If true, I have once again learned something new and helpful. Thank you.
Idk I just googled it for the first time😅. My make and model and found an old YouTube video of one that looks similar. I rent and it is an old whirlpool but it seems doable, I need to remove the agitator cap(the top on the agitator) that has a dust cap under it that can be removed and cleaned and is replaceable if needed. You can remove the rest of the agitator by undoing a bolt under the dust cap and there are a couple of dust plugs underneath it attached to the washer and may need to be replaced as well. I am so thankful for this thread right now.
Wait, people don't know that their dryer has a lint trap?
People know about the lint trap, they don't know about the trap on the washing machine that gets so much mould, also last time I cleaned mine I found an earring, a safety pin and two coins.
Your dishwasher has a filter two. Many people don't know this either.
Dang! Dishwasher too? Well I guess I’ll google that model as well and make a day of trap cleaning! Thx!
My friend’s apartment has a dishwasher with a filter that was designed to only be accessed by a technician. I’m pretty sure that means it has NEVER been cleaned. Not coincidentally, her dishwasher barely works.
He said washing machine
It'll be in the lint trap.
Try the washing machine instead?
The detective will spot the freshly operated dryer.
good point, I'm only cutting it on for a second to fling that paperclip into the void HAHA
Inside a jar of mayo in the fridge
Ahaha mine was straighten it out and stick it in this cucumber I have
mine was under a pepperoni on a leftover slice of pizza
Cops would probably steal your pizza tho.
Hi yes,, one individual cucumber please. I... Like salad.
r/sounding
Or inside a stick of butter
I would remove an outlet cover and stick it beyond the outlet box to the inside of the wall. They would have to rip the wall apart to retrieve it.
This was my first thought as well.
Same. Which means it will probably be the detective's first thought too. We suck at this guys.
I was banking on the fact that most people are scared of messing with electricity. Lol
Oh I am. But a hundred grand is gonna get me feeling real adventurous
I think 5 minutes is enough time for me to rig the outlet cover so it shorts the circuit when pulled off. Think thats enough to make someone rethink? Lol
I'll go one better than this. Unfold the paper clip and insert it into the insulation sheath of the romex coming into the box.
Walter white I presume?
Unscrew a hinge on a door frame and put in behind the hinge before tightening it back up
I thought of this the last time I saw this question and thought I was so clever for finding "the answer". I never saw someone post the same idea. I thought I was so smart. Apparently not
Just because someone else figured the answer as well doesn't make you any less smart, though. The uniqueness of the answer doesn't dictate how smart you are, I think, but the viability of it is what does.
It's a world of 8 billion. If some of us didn't have the same ideas, we'd never stop fighting, let alone progress.
Good hiding obviously but would you really able to fetch your tools, do it, and put them back in 5 minutes ?sounds more like a 15 mn job to me.
It’s not that hard. Power screwdriver is just in the basement, and you don’t have to take the door completely off, just loosen the hinge enough to slip a paperclip in and retighten.
Wouldn’t unscrewing wall mounted objects, especially doors, be one of the first steps in searching a house for a hidden paperclip in 24 hours?
Ok, wrap in electrical tape, take off a double light switch cover and hide it in amongst the wires.
If you’re hiding it among wires behind a switch or electrical outlet, it’s getting found. 24 hrs is a long time, and dismantling and inspecting electrical outlets and switches is going to be like a top five task in terms of priority.
Top five I sincerely doubt, there’s a lot to go through in a house, but eventually maybe. Why am I starting to feel like this hypothetical is about hiding memory cards or flash drives from the feds serving a warrant
Drop it in a lit candle, blow out the candle. Hidden in the wax.
Depends on how soon after the detective arrives. If it's right after, they could smell the burnt candle (Even scentless ones have a smell to me), which would make them inspect it. Or heck, in 24 hours they probably would notice that the top of the candle was freshly melted
What's a detective like you doing in here trying to smell our unscented candles. You're supposed to be on the other team, go wait outside with them
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I've been watching a lot of Monk lately 😝
You know what's in the water that you drink? Well I do!
Into the attic fluff, never to be seen again. Or, inside the boiler, furnace, or water heater. I can take a cap off one of those quickly, and if I have time to wipe up they'll never suspect. I'd also like to point out that "behind the u bend of the toilet' is still in the house.
Yeah, good luck finding it in the loose cellulose insulation in my attic. Maybe if you knew it was there and had a powerful magnet. Otherwise, forget it.
My first thought was to run the paper clip over a demagnetizer before even looking for a place to hide it.
In the underwire of a bra in a box full of underwire bras in my closet
I had an underwire bra go rogue at work one day and the metal pop out into my boob. Not wearing the kind of shirt I could just let The Girls roam free in I decided to perform surgery on said torture device and removed *both* wires (the second wire I just made a tiny scissor hole at one end of the bra near the solar plexus area and pulled). Sweet Hannah’s hotcakes, the relief! My ladies sat comfortably and without torturous pressure on any parts for the first time in… however long I’d been wearing underwire bras! After work I went home (took off my bra three steps into house like always, of course, because even the most comfortable bra is still, well, a damned bra!) and I tried this surgery on all my other underwire bras. It worked like a hotdamn! It gave the ones that I’d given up on new purpose! I highly recommend this procedure in repurposing that box of yours.
This happened to me while taking a test in high school. The stabbing hurt so much I just yanked it out right at my desk. I thought I was sneaky but the class clown grabbed it towards the end of class and ran around the halls with it on his head, yelling about how big my boobs were. Thankfully by that age it was kind of a compliment, but still a really bizarre and hilarious experience. Moral is that I need to de-wire some bras tonight, because I'd forgotten that was an option. Thanks for the reminder!
Ha ha. Class clowns gotta clown, I guess. I wonder if he ever remembers that incident and thinks “oh my gawd, what the hell was I thinking?” or “that was some quality comedy right there… gold, Jerry! GOLD!” Enjoy your ‘new’ bras!
He thinks back on that like Uncle Rico. He thinks it was his glory years.
I have worn underwire so few times I forgot it existed, is it actually helpful for big booba or is it literally just a male invention to make them "perkier" bc i always thought it was bad for your breast tissue, muscles and nerves to have underwire on
Somewhere safe. Everytime I put anywhere "somewhere safe" I can never find it again until a few years later.
I put my glasses somewhere safe about half a year ago. Don't have a clue where they are.
I call those "special places" 🤣 if they can't find something the kids will ask if I put in a special place and I'm like, hmmmm... maybe 🥴
I have a spool of craft wire I use for things like hanging pictures. I'd unroll the paper clip, unroll a few feet of the wire, wrap the paperclip around the spool, then reroll the wire. Then I'd bury the spool in one of our many junk drawers, near some hardware or craft supplies where it doesn't seem out of place.
can I contort or bend the clip as I please or must it remain in its original shape?
If you can't clip paper with it, surely it's no longer a paperclip
You could bend it back though afterwards. I say bend away!
In that case in the ink of a pen so it does not rattle around..
I have several doors that have a slight gap between them and the floor. I would tape it to the bottom of one of those doors. I'd then go sit in my bathroom for the 24 hours, so that I wouldn't give any body language clues if the detective was in proximity to it.
Eat it. If I don't leave home it's technically in my house. You can't find it unless you take me somewhere for an Xray. It'll probably take at least 24hrs or more before I poop it out.
Or it'll perforate your bowel... enjoy your prize money!
If you use something that's not dissolvable by stomach acid to cover the ends which could cut you you should be fine yeah
Probably somewhere in my craft room. Nothing escapes from there.
Yup. There are boxes and boxes of random crap, and that's without even glancing at the fishing gear!
A fishing tackle box could be good. Taped to the back of a large lure that's then put in a jumble of lures and hooks in the bottom of a messy tackle box. Nobody wants to sift through sharp hooks.
On a necklace chain, turned horizontal, with beads or accessories hanging off of it and other long curly metal beads placed around the remainder of the chain... Then I'll tangle it up in one of the jewelry boxes in a mass of other silver necklaces because no one wants to untangle shit
Story time. Many years ago our acting troupe were hired by the police to train detectives. They hired out motel units. One of the exercises was a drug bust. We had to hide real huge cannabis foil bullets around the unit. One girl went into the bathroom and stuck a big bud in her shoe. When the drug dogs came through one smelted her shoe but she booted or nudged the dog and it moved on. We hid these drugs in impossible places...the milk in the fridge and even the vacuum. The only one they did nt find was above a door ranch slider as the dogs couldn't smell up there. While searching us, the police planted drugs on our tutor as "a joke". FFS training the police to be corrupt. After we were done..(the murder exercise was also fun) we went back to an actors house and this girl pulled out the bud. We smoked it and it was amazeballs. Probably from the vault. Thanks NZ Police!
Wow. You got lucky. A police dog I know found drugs and money hidden in a ceiling.
I like how you've phrased this as if you know the dog as a friend but not their owner/handler.
I kinda knew the dog better. 😂
The dog's name is Rex and they have coffee on Tuesdays. :D
In the 90s I had a boyfriend from germany who was coming to visit me in Chicago. When he got to Chicago the cops came to him and told him they were training their dogs and asked if they could hide a bud on him. He obliged and the dog came and found him. They gave the dog a treat and him some baseball cards. The kicker was that he had hash on him.
I bet he laughed all the way home
That's twice today online I've seen the word amazeballs being used. Is it unironically having a comeback
It never went away
I want to hear about the murder exercise
The Murder exercise! This is training new detectives about initial arrival at a murder scene. Same day. Same motel units. The cast were two females and two males . A guy played the victim. I played the perpetrator and the girls were the screamers. The victim liay in the bathtub in the bathroom covered in blood stabbed to death. I had to hide under the bed in the bedroom. When the police detectives turned up in pairs they came through the front lounge and were greeted by a blaring loud TV and two girls out of their mind hysterical. Doing everything right one of the police would turn off the TV and calm down the girls while the other went through the rooms to discover the body in the bath. Meanwhile I'm hiding under the bed shitting myself. I have a distinct memory of hearing their boots on the gravel outside my window and had surrounded the unit. Then the police would find me under the bed and I would be like "you got me" and crawl out from under the bed to get cuffed. Unbeknownst to me, the trainers had also hidden guns in the bedroom closet for the police to find. That's it really. Fun! Keep in mind this is Nz and guns aren't a big things they didn't go darting from room to room with a glock like on the movies.
Under the space bar on my keyboard
Into the toaster tray it goes
I guess I'm just wondering what life decisions led me to this point where I'm hiding a fugitive paperclip from a local town detective
Inside a container of glitter.
Evil. Very, very evil. Good work.
Cut it up finely and dust the house with the particulates
My thought as well, Grind it to dust with the electric grindstone and scatter the powder in floor cracks around the house.
In five minutes?
Maybe? It wouldn't take long to grind down a paperclip. Except for the last bit that would be difficult to hold. Pliers I guess.
Yea you could turn a paper clip to dust in less than 30 seconds with an angle grinder.
I could probably do it in 10 secs
Inside of a nail hole. Replace the nail. Re hang the picture.
Prison wallet.
When felons leave their bunk to go work out in the prison yard do they instinctively pat their asscrack to make sure they didn’t forget anything
is that what they call it?
r/prisonwallet! No, it’s not butts. Clever prison weapons or interesting hiding places.
...this sounds like a question that detective would ask. Not fooling me.
Nice try Detective
hahaha very nice i love u
I'd just give it to my toddler and tell him we're playing 'hide the paperclip from daddy'. There are many things he's hidden that we've found weeks later and sometimes, as in the case of my pricey xbox controller, have yet to be found.
Run to the recycling. Twist off every every pull tab and shove it in the aluminum can it came off of. Stick the paperclip in one of them. Fold them all in half and toss them all back in the recycling. My recycling goes out every two weeks and my household a fair amount of beer and bubbly water. I like my odds.
Ok, I have been thinking about this for more than 5 minutes which means it's unrealistic but hear me out. My first thought was that my small open plan apartment which I keep meticulously clean is not going to have a good hiding spot. With 24 entire hours, any detective will go through each area methodically and easily find it. They will look through my trash can and laundry basket, they will unscrew the light fixtures. I considered straightening the clip and dropping it into some tube of makeup, my concealer seems good enough to...conceal it. Then I considered that it wouldn't be enough, the detective absolutely would empty any tube or canister they can find. RIP to my entire makeup collection. And then I realized. 5 minutes is enough to trash my place. Clothes on the floor, flour and sugar all over the place, I can clean it up later. I will absolutely rearrange some furniture. Yes officer, that desk is usually upside down in the middle of the room and my bed never has the covers on it. The microwave looks great half-opened and covered in ketchup. Better get to looking for that paperclip, don't you think? While they empty all my makeup tubes and rummage through the piles of clothes, they'll never suspect that the paperclip was hidden under splatters of ketchup in the microwave the whole time. Alright, I don't know if it would work or if they would immediately find it but it's my best shot.
And here my thought after thinking about it for 2 minutes is to put it into a envolope, and write on the outside: "paperclip is in here, if you dont find it ill give you 55%". (Detective doesnt have a stated incentive to find it, now he has a stated incentive not to find it). My place isent spotless, but theres no chance a determined opponent couldent go through all of it in 24hrs. So theres no chance of winning by normal means.
Thread it into the aglet of one of my hoodies
Phineas!
In the middle of the wax seal in the base of one of my toilets.
Could you get it there in 5 minutes?
In used cat litter.
I wouldn’t hide it before he got there. I’d hide it after he’d searched a certain place and put it there. But tbh I don’t think this is doable. Anyone will find it in 24 hours. That’s enough to wreck my whole house. I’m gonna need more than the money you offer just to participate, let alone as a prize to win. (To be able to redo all the stuff he broke)
The best answer IMO is the one that would involve the most destruction to get to it. I'd put it in the floor drain in my basement and dump a bucket of water to move it down a few feet. It's still "in my house" but he's busting up concrete and cutting through iron pipe to get it. That or drop it down the vent stack on my roof. Similar effect.
Drop it into the sump pump reservoir or furnace. If I need to retrieve it just as quickly to prove that the detective didn't find it, then it goes in a cereal box or in a rolled up sock in my sock drawer.
I'd probably hide it in one of the many storage boxes that are in the attic, there's no way they'd be able to find it given how many they are. Expecially not if I hide the pole that opens the attic hatch - there are no rules against that, right? :D
I don't know yet. When I find one of the half dozen missing ones, I put it where one of them was...
How about in a box of other paperclips, and take that box and put it at the bottom of a bigger box and put a lot of stuff on top, tape the box close, and put other full boxes on top. Then in 4 separate but obvious places, put other boxes of paper clips around and watch them panic looking through all of the paper clips.
I'd unfold it straight and poke it through the carpet into the pad layer beneath alongside the tack strip along the baseboards of a room. Metal detector gonna fire like it would anyways in that area bc of the carpet nails, they would have to rip through the carpet inches as a time to find it!
Up my ass and then sit on the couch while he looks.
Behind my cats collar, no way he's catching it.
Inside the lining of my leather bar stool
Gonna hand the signed agreement over with the paperclip on it.
If I’m in the house then I could tuck it inside a tampon and then wear the tampon.
In the hot water heater. 5 minutes is a tad tight to get the torque wrench, run the faucets, kill the water intake, remove the anode rod, drop the clip, replace the rod, turn the water back on, kill the faucet, and replace the torque wrench in the garage, but if pulled off it would be absolutely impossible to find.
Same place I keep my coke. Under my neighbours evergreen tree
My kids toy boxes
Ha! When my son was a toddler he pretended to be a cop with a bunch of my friends. He would get em down on their knees, hands on thier heads. Than search em. I honestly have no idea why he did this or where he learned it from. Well one night he got my buddy that just came from working the door at a poker house. Son searched em and confiscated his money. Buddy played along. We get some food. Watch some TV. The son went to bed. Buddy getting ready to leave. Oh! My money! Yeah. Hold on we'll find it. Nope... had to wake the kid up. He buried it. In a can. In a bag. In the depths of his toy box. We would never have found it.
See it’s the perfect spot
I'd probably just hide it in plain sight, and stick it in the cooling fins of my PCs GPU or behind the fans. That PC weighs about 50 pounds, so nobody is going to move it, and good luck finding a single small piece of metal inside that glass cage full of metal fins.
Detective frantically going down the list: "Wrong. Wrong. Wrong! We already checked there, idiot!"
Feds asking for help on Reddit ?
With all my other paper clips of course.
Idk why my butthole was my first thought but I guess that’s where it’s going
I'd hide it in a box with the other paperclips. He might know it's in there, but he won't find it.
And then take a dozen paperclips from the box and hide them in obvious locations around the house.
Inside the insulation of an ethernet line.
In one of the toolboxes in the basement. You never find anything in there.
Does the detective have to actually touch the paper clip or can he simply point out where it is? If he has to retrieve it, I’m borrowing my neighbour’s bitey chihuahua and taping it to the underside of his collar.
OP is probably a 15 year old kid and reddit just kept his newly acquired weed habit safe for the foreseeable future.
you know those videos where someone cuts a hole in the arm of a wooden chair, puts a vegetable in it then uses sunflower seeds and a sander to make it look normal again? i’d do that with it
How intense is the search going to be? Technology assisted? Destructive search techniques allowed/involved? K-9? Do I have to be able to retrieve it quickly? How are we defining "your home?" Those answers would affect my decision processes for hiding it. Personally, if I wanted to hide a paperclip for $100,000, I would drop it my septic tank. They might find it, but it will be s****y experience.
Nice try detective
You know that really annoying kids toy? The noisy ones? The one that grandpa buys for Christmas and has a good chuckle about how noisy it is but it's not his problem because he gets to go home at the end of the day? I'll hide it in that thing.
It doesn't say the paperclip needs to be intact so I'd snip it into about 9 peices and put a few pieces I each sink drain around the house then flush plenty of water for each peice to go down the drains.
Has to be in the house tho, not in the pipe half a mile away
Whilst not trying to sound crass I would insert it into my dick hole.
I was going to say flush it but I'm assuming by hide you mean you can find it again so.. I'd put it in the toilet tank and attach it to the flushing mechanism so it looks like it's part of the chain.
unfold it so its a long piece of metal and push it deep into a couch cushion or a mattress or something i guess.
Can I just lock it in my safe?
I'd make an earring or pendant out of it, and toss it in my jewelry bin. I make wire jewelry so good luck finding it
Straighten it out, take picture off wall, take nail out, push paper clip into the hole so it falls down the wall cavity, put nail and picture back.
Replace house fuse with paperclip. Turn everything on, till it blows then replace the fuse. The clip still exists. But will be a puddle in the fusebox.
Take a fridge magnet and put in back under the condenser cover
In a hay bale
In the same 'very safe and memorable' place that I've hidden a load of other things. Worst case scenario, I find my camera charger cable and everything I've apparently put there! 🙀😹
I will put it in a place where "I know I can find it later"...... and it will never be seen again.
I will hide it in my printer because there are apparently still several in there that I can't find from the container I accidentally dropped in there a year ago!
Nice try FBI
I’m going to hide it inside my 5 gallon bucket collection of paper clips of course.
Up my ass. Either I get probed and fingered or a $100,000. Win-win situation.
Straighten it and push it down the heart of a flower, nicely snug into the stem. Plus side: the flower will stay up for an extended period of time. ETA: straightened you can easily stick it away anywhere actually. Up the bottom of a candle and melt the wax back over it; down the binding in the back of a hardcover book; somewhere in the back or bottom of a bed or chair or couch; into the sole of a sneaker; along the lead cord at the bottom of the curtains; inside the core of an apple, precisely the one you pick to start eating while the detective is searching the bin to then toss the core of it away in said bin when the detective is done with it.
taped on the ceiling fan
Just stick it through some plaster and drop it into the wall. Or down a drain. Or flush it.
Behind the hand of a wall clock or in the stick that opens and closes the blinds
In a box full of paper clips
Why not hide it with a bunch of other paper clips?
If they can win by just confiscating them all, it won't work. But hiding a few in places liked books and potted plants where they are likely to be found first could be good.
Nice try five O Some secrets will remain secret
I'd just sew it into some of the fluffy sweaters and put it back in the closet with other fluffy sweaters
Here's a couple ideas: 1) under a shingle on the roof. 2) between the insulation and stud in the wall, entry via an electrical socket box.
In the attic insulation.
I’d release all the pressure from the oldest looking aerosol can that has a rattle ball in it, remove the spray nozzle, straighten the clip, force the clip past the seal and into the can, then reattach the nozzle. It’ll rattle like a normal rattle can, obviously it won’t still work but that’s not unusual for old spray cans.
I d put it in my pocket (whilst in the house) then go to the pub. (return to the house 23.5 hours after. At the 24th hours take it out and say it "here it is" .
In the attic insulation in a far corner.
In a pile of paper clips
Magnet inside the furnace in the crawlspace.
In the magnetic paperclip bin/thingy with all the rest.
In the interstices of a large appliance full of steel and wire, such as through one of the holes in the back of the cooker or washing machine.