Taped to the inside of the blower housing of my furnace.
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A pro wouldn't think of that in 12 hours time?
Firstly, if you can, get a bunch of boxes of paperclips and put them in plausible hiding places. Depending on how they are marked, it might buy you some time.
Some ideas:
- Lock it in a safe or strongbox only you know the code for.
- Unscrew a plug socket or light switch from the wall, put it in the cavity, and then reattach it.
- Get a photograph with a metal frame and slip the paperclip behind the picture itself.
- Find some other metalic easy to dismantle thing and hide the clip inside.
- Throw it down a drain or other hole, you can use a magnet on a string to retrieve it.
I assume the investigator will systematically remove everything and sweep it with a metal detector. Hopefully these hiding places won't be as obvious.
I figured the investigator would start non-destructively, just moving things around, pickup up loose objects, etc.
But who knows, maybe they go full destruction mode immediately.
They do have a way of verifying, and it would buy some time as they pick up every single paperclip they find and verify it somehow.
Pop up some of the quarter round behind one of the toilets and drop the paperclip between the flooring and the studs then a quick tap down of the quarter round. With the extra time I might quickly paint a few spots in other rooms to distract them.
I think this could work.
Distraction paint is a nice touch.
Straighten the paperclip and hide it:
Inside a ballpoint pen. In a spool of wire. Shove it into a side of a cardboard box. Drop it down a drain. Taped to the backside of a shelf. Inside the foam of my headphones. inside an extension cord - make sure to not use it afterwards.
Well, you have to show the paperclip for verification after the 12 hours, so your cord is fine again?
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Swallow it.
That counts as having the paperclip when you leave. So no, that doesn't work
I think I would open an air vent and hide the paper clip inside the vent, with a small piece of duct tape over it. I think it would just look like someone patched a hole in the air duct.