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You put your gold in a box and stuck it in the ground in a ranch in the middle of nowhere. No one knows there is gold in a box in the ground so it's safe. But people know that other people but gold in boxes and stick it in the ground.

One day you go to get it so you load up your pickup with gold digging equipment and drive to the ranch. On the way are spotters. They see your truck has gold digging equipment. They see that the road you're going down leads to the ranch. It's obvious what you're going to do.

They load up their faster Ford Ranger and blaze down the road. You can't catch up. They have a faster car. You get there. They have taken your gold.

If you hadn't gone there, the gold was relatively safe. Maybe some day someone happens on it but realistically probably not.

But you went. By looking for it you revealed you were looking and you revealed where you were looking.