A pair of California poker players has won their civil court case after Iowan State Troopers robbed them of $100,000 in cash during a routine traffic stop in 2013.

Our cash may be coated in semen, urine and over 3,000 types of different bacteria. Exposure to it may cause acne, gastric ulcers, pneumonia and food poisoning. But we love it so much, if you take it away from us, we get quite upset. And in Iowa, the State Troopers just love taking it away from people.

In 2013, poker players William Davis and John Newmerzhycky were driving through the Hawkeye State after a productive visit to a World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) event in Joliet when two State Troopers searched the vehicle and found $100,000 in cash. The two poker players would have to wait another three years before they saw it again.

Troopers, Justin Simmons and Eric VanderWiel, conducted the search without a warrant. They took the cash because the law allowed them to. They didn’t even have to offer an explanation, although they did state that they thought the money had a drug connection after one of the poker players was found to have a toke of weed.