A few days later I drove up to Santa Cruz for the return of the stuff that had been seized. The cops gave me back my computer terminal but not the disks, which worried me because those incriminating disks contained evidence of my hacks into Pacific Bell, among other interesting places. Another box that they did return, though, they must not have looked at very carefully or cared: it held Bonnie’s pot stash and bong pipe. Then again, this was Santa Cruz, with a small-town police department.