The main thing I noticed doing this is that my brain really wants to come up with clever solutions. A lot of obvious but non-clever solutions came later.
Bury it in a completely random place on the earth in a secure box, making sure I wasn’t followed, record the location exactly
Put it in a bank vault
Make friends with someone who guards the crown jewels, ask them to slip it under the cushion that the crown rests on
Find a lot of identical pens, mix it in with them
Put it in my mother-in-law’s kitchen drawer
Put it in a well-insulated box in a satellite whose orbit will decay in 50 years
Donate it to the Swiss patent office
Slip it in to the Swiss patent office (visit and put it in someone’s desk)
Split it into pieces (cartridge, top half, bottom half etc) and attach those pieces to pieces taken from identical pens, so there are now three pens. Don’t tell anyone, they hopefully won’t catch on
weld the pen into another object
hide it inside a lamppost
Hide it inside a drainage pipe
Melt the constituent parts of the pen down into another form
Bury it in my back yard
Give it to Einstein’s grandma
Give it to Einstein’s school
Buld it into a piece of furniture (e.g. a door)
Hide it in a Cluedo set
Attach it to a flotation device and a GPS tracker and set it adrift in the middle of an ocean
Place it in the foundations of a building that I know will be torn down in 50 years time
Camouflage it
Feed it to a cow
Tie it to the top of the empire state building
Tie it under the golden gate bridge
Put it in the edge of a picture frame
Attach it to a magnet in CERN
Give it to the Royal Society, tell them what it is, ask them to hide it
Sink it to the bottom of the marinas trench, or somewhere less obvious
Give it to them—they’ll be so shocked they won’t believe it’s the real one
Remove any identifying marks, and set up a company to mass-produce such pens, slip it in with the others
Give it to a randomly-selected person
Get it lost in the post
Put it in a high-altitude balloon with a timer set to detonate the balloon after 50 years, allowing the pen to fall to earth
Get it caught in a whale’s balleen
Tie it to an Elephant’s tusk
Hide it inside a piano
Hide it inside a hollow book
Hide it inside an oven
Hide it in a toilet cistern
Stick it underneath a fridge
Put it in the stuffing of a sofa
Hide it inside the handle of a fishing rod
Hide it under a railway line, inside a groove in a sleeper
Bury it at a (full) landfill site
Put it at the top of a redwood, buried in the bark
Hide it in a cave
Go to antarctica, melt a circle of ice, throw it in, so that it ends up encased in a piece of ice
Hide it in their own house, so they won’t look for it
Spread as many rumours and as much misinformation about the pen as possible, to throw them off the scent, then just keep it
The main thing I noticed doing this is that my brain really wants to come up with clever solutions. A lot of obvious but non-clever solutions came later.
Bury it in a completely random place on the earth in a secure box, making sure I wasn’t followed, record the location exactly
Put it in a bank vault
Make friends with someone who guards the crown jewels, ask them to slip it under the cushion that the crown rests on
Find a lot of identical pens, mix it in with them
Put it in my mother-in-law’s kitchen drawer
Put it in a well-insulated box in a satellite whose orbit will decay in 50 years
Donate it to the Swiss patent office
Slip it in to the Swiss patent office (visit and put it in someone’s desk)
Split it into pieces (cartridge, top half, bottom half etc) and attach those pieces to pieces taken from identical pens, so there are now three pens. Don’t tell anyone, they hopefully won’t catch on
weld the pen into another object
hide it inside a lamppost
Hide it inside a drainage pipe
Melt the constituent parts of the pen down into another form
Bury it in my back yard
Give it to Einstein’s grandma
Give it to Einstein’s school
Buld it into a piece of furniture (e.g. a door)
Hide it in a Cluedo set
Attach it to a flotation device and a GPS tracker and set it adrift in the middle of an ocean
Place it in the foundations of a building that I know will be torn down in 50 years time
Camouflage it
Feed it to a cow
Tie it to the top of the empire state building
Tie it under the golden gate bridge
Put it in the edge of a picture frame
Attach it to a magnet in CERN
Give it to the Royal Society, tell them what it is, ask them to hide it
Sink it to the bottom of the marinas trench, or somewhere less obvious
Give it to them—they’ll be so shocked they won’t believe it’s the real one
Remove any identifying marks, and set up a company to mass-produce such pens, slip it in with the others
Give it to a randomly-selected person
Get it lost in the post
Put it in a high-altitude balloon with a timer set to detonate the balloon after 50 years, allowing the pen to fall to earth
Get it caught in a whale’s balleen
Tie it to an Elephant’s tusk
Hide it inside a piano
Hide it inside a hollow book
Hide it inside an oven
Hide it in a toilet cistern
Stick it underneath a fridge
Put it in the stuffing of a sofa
Hide it inside the handle of a fishing rod
Hide it under a railway line, inside a groove in a sleeper
Bury it at a (full) landfill site
Put it at the top of a redwood, buried in the bark
Hide it in a cave
Go to antarctica, melt a circle of ice, throw it in, so that it ends up encased in a piece of ice
Hide it in their own house, so they won’t look for it
Spread as many rumours and as much misinformation about the pen as possible, to throw them off the scent, then just keep it
Hide it inside a really ugly pencil case