Just wanted to add that hoodlums also dress in 3 piece Armani suits ( $2,000.00) , wear Bruno Magli Rammola shoes ( $415.00), wear Rolex watches ( $10,000.00) and drive cars worth $100,000.00. This type of hoodlum can rob and has robbed people of their life savings without toting a gun and can change your entire life around and cause you to become homeless, lose all of your valuable possessions, lose your family, lose your health insurance, deplete your bank account and devastate your livelihood.
These are the people that I would be afraid of. Innocent folks never see something like that coming. At least when you see a gun toting hoodlum, you can cross the street or never venture off into their neck of the woods if that's what you chose to do. Some powerful CEOs and other execs can fool you and you would never know how big of a hoodlum they are until you lose your life savings that you had been saving for for years.
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Noun 1. hoodlum - an aggressive and violent young criminal
hood, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie, goon, tough
bully - a hired thug
criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime [/Q[/B]UOTE]
I think of the exesc at Enron when I think of hoodlums.
Is there a difference between a good hoodlum (has manners, likes to share, eats healthy, does not carry a gun or weapon, does not participate in drive bys) and bad hoodlum (no description needed for this one)?
There are lots of those out there, Kuntrygirl. It's sad. On CNBC there are lots of white collar swindler shows. Most use ponsey tricks to use up other people's money to live crazy elaborate lifestyles. R. Allen Stanford did that here and elsewhere. One of my friends was invested in his firm. She was a retired Social Worker. It looked like she was doing well so I put my money there, too. Shortly after I did the Feds raided his firm. My friend lost 1/2 of her retirement money. And some people lost all of theirs. These people can't go back to work to try to restore their retirement. I was lucky. Stanford would have put my money in bogus CD's within a week or so when they were raided. They had already told me they were going to. I didn't lose my money. I am so blessed, I came close to losing it all. And I saved that all my life, sometimes $25 or $50 a month. And at those times it was a sacrifice to do that. During good times I did more, but I always put in something. I cannot say on BYC what I think of someone who takes money someone saved all their life to buy another Rolex or another villa on Lake Como in Italy. Grrrrrr