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OH boy.  I won't even retort. Keep beliveing this way. hahaha. Go find some books on graffiti, you will clear up all your misconceptions a bit more. BUT- you won't learn everything there is to know about graf. Writers have TONS of secrets and they are bound to an oath of secrecy when they join a crew.  The crew becomes their family, not in the gang sense that you see on TV like on COPS, or in the movies, but more like a tight knit group of friends.  Many writers are starting to form their own religion too, which is based a bit on a certain type of magic. This magic is more of a guiding force for the writer whenever he or she (yes, there are females that write too) gos out to paint.  the writers pray to a higher power, that sometimes thake the form of an animal, kind of like a jackalope (little rabbit with small deer antlers). This might seem REALLY crazy and way out form left field, but it's true.  Regular crews won't hurt anyone, and they are not violent.  Sometimes there is confrontation- like when another writer goes over another, the two crews call each other up set up a date to try and talk out the situation, and if ALL ELSE FAILS, then it resorts to a fight.  in the fight, there are many rules and codes that each writer MUST follow.  If not, he/she could face possibly being removed from that crew.  All I really know about the fighting tradition is that the writers have to square off and do a 2 minute ceramonial dance, then lock right hands and fight until one gives up or until the crew delegates decide the fight is over.  Man, if you think American writers are bad, YOU GOTTA see the European writers. those guys are CRAZY1  but what it all comes down to is that a writer just wants to paint his name on a train car. I saw a comment above early on in the thread where some one was sugesting that graffiti-ers should paint more engines.  Thats just great- actually that is one of the STUPIDEST things a writer can do.  That would be the equivalent of painting on a church, or someones wife, or a police station.  You would get REALLY pissed if someone paint your wife, right? Writers do not want the extra problems. So there.
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