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...Want to take the chance you might get caught in the middle of something serious even though you have paid for the experience and the consequences might not be what you bargained for?
Well, the opportunity is there for you if you are heading for Los Angeles anytime soon. The sprawling city's South Central section, which is unchallenged as the gang capital of the world, is the site of an experiment in living history. L.A. Gang Tours opened recently and the inaugural hoopla included front-page recognition in no less than The New York Times that made it clear that the City of Angels had a unique standing when it comes to crime.
All one has to do is sign a release warning of possible danger, fork over $65 that also covers lunch, and join 56 others for two hours on a bus that makes 12 stops including a jail where thousands of gang bangers are incarcerated.

...Is there a danger of romanticizing or even glorifying the culture that has cost so many lives and caused so much heartache and tragedy to go along with the poverty that pervades the area? You think? ....

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John

...it appeares no other thing
to mee, then a foule and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of worke is a man!