The unspoken warning here is that you take your chances when you hide your silver in plain sight disguised as something ordinary or even disposable, such as rat poison, an old stereo receiver, a doorstop or Grandma's old douchebag box. This story is a big reason why I am not a fan of the "hide-in-plain-sight" tactic for storing silver: your heirs are very likley going to discard your ingeniously concealed silver horse and not even know it ever existed.