Well, looks like the cat is out of the damn bag: the Splog writing staff are all members of the infamous Haines Road Cru (check the picture of brightlight). Fortunately, however, we evaded capture during the recent rash of beating people with metal chains, robbing pharmacies and shooting cops.

Seriously, though, are you surprised that there is a faux gang on Haines Road? We’ve talked before about the highly peculiar nature of Haines Road, which brightlight described eloquently in this post:

Yes, Haines Road, that confusingly diagonal avenue of devolution and unincorporation, where the concentration of trailer parks is matched only by the concentration of pedophiles living within them, which itself is, in one of those uniqulely Florida ways, inversely proportionate to their distance from middle schools.

The even less surprising fact, though, is that they’re doing it wrong. Here’s what St. Pete PD gang intelligence had to say about the “gang”:

Although police and prosecutors say the Haines Road Cru meets the legal definition of a gang under Florida law, it doesn’t exactly resemble well-known, traditional street gangs such as the Bloods or the Crips. Detective Peter Yarbrough, who works in gang intelligence for St. Petersburg police, said the Haines Road Cru doesn’t appear to be bound together by initiation rituals like beat-ins. The main bond holding them together is that many grew up in the same neighborhoods in the Haines Road area.

Sorry kids, in real cities you can’t call yourselves a gang just because you all happen to live in the same trailer court. But hey, shooting cops is definitely a step in the right direction.