according to one account hearst and the harrises now the only survivors of the sla unit that abducted her bought a car blocks away while the siege was going on but it broke down when they stopped in an african american area leaving them with a total of $ they walked a few hundred yards from the car and hid in a crawlspace under a residential building when a late night party started in the room above hearst readied her weapon saying "the pigs" were closing in on them in whispers the harrises begged her to calm down they spent the next two weeks in san francisco flophouses disguised as derelicts