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Ah grapho, grapho! You just won't go willingly to your proper gaffe fate. Yes of course, "to bust" means to arrest a single person, but "to bust up" means "to break up", as in a gang. But you knew that, grapho, now didn't you?
So why do you feel the necessity to mealy-mouth your apology to these upstanding erudite people here on this word-parsing board? Can you not simply say...
___________________________________"I have spinned, my brethern, but now I repent?"
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