Robin Hoods might be a better description, though the day- traders' motives were no more pure than the big brokers'.

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Robin Hoods have come and gone, at least one of them wondrously zestful (Errol Flynn's) and one of them woefully zonked (Kevin Costner's).

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Fictional or historical, the characters are often portrayed as latter-day Robin Hoods, victims of oppression or the everyman brutalized by an economy or authority, Rapping said.

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Your correspondent, coming down through the woods, was startled to chance across one of these modern Robin Hoods in full camouflage, and felt lucky to escape alive.

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