Portuguese term (edited): picha��o

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...In the mall someone got arrested for graffiting the street with water-based paint and got chucked in a paddy wagon. We surrounded ...
www.brisbane.indymedia.org.au/ front.php3?article_id=718&group=webcast - 34k -

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Graffiti Uma pequena história
... que significa um tipo de alcatrão) ou seja, ao acto de escrever (pura e simplesmente)
nos muros dá-se o nome de pichar. Porque o graffiti é considerado ...
mtjgraffiti.no.sapo.pt/wwwjovem.htm - 5k - Resultado Adicional

NOTE: There\'s a difference between \'graffiti\' (art form) and \'pichação\' (vandalism) in Brazilian Portuguese, but it\'s the same word for both in EN (at least US): GRAFFITI/GRAFFITING

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... When you graffiti you are doing something that is against the law. Graffiti
on public property hurt the public and make them disgusted. ...
www.sfgov.org/site/graffiti_index.asp?id=253 - 15k

The County of Santa Clara - SCC Official Public Portal
b) Graffiti means any unauthorized inscription, writing, lettering, word, figure, mark, design or other inscribed material that is written, marked, etched, scratched, drawn, painted or otherwise placed on real or personal property, whether public or private.www.sccgov.org/scc/assets/ docs/scc_ordinance/32800000.HTM - 32k

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