"Hide in plain site" is a tactic that often works when people want to "hide" something. I've used it lots, with success. After all, there aren't many unique hiding places really. That's also like the saying, "If it were a snake, it would've bitten me!"
several years ago someone broke into the apartment I was living in. They kicked in the door, but not the front door, they climbed to the third floor and kicked in the door to the balcony then unlocked the front door. Luckily this can't happen where i currently live. It's a controlled access building, only residents can get in downstairs vis aitors have to be buzzed in...and theres no way anyone could climb the wall up to a window because my window opens to a small space a little bigger than an elevator shaft where the outside wall of this building meets 2 other buildings forming a sort of shaft that goes all the way down where theres an airconditioning unit and a door only accessible from the other side. They would have to hook a rope around the fire escape and pull themselves up, climb to the top of the building and somehow lower themselves down into this space to my window without falling to their death.
I had shit stolen outta my car before...then I saw the guy a few months later and he tried to come into the store I was working at. I told him that I'm the girl he stole from a few years ago and to get the fuck outta the store before he really regretted it. I kept an aluminum bat behind the counter. That fucker bolted like a little sissy