{"id":113894,"date":"2025-08-02T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113894\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:50:11","slug":"soft-on-crime-nyc-mayoral-frontrunner-zohran-mamdani-got-an-f-in-burglary-in-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113894\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft-on-crime NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani got an F in burglary in college"},"content":{"rendered":"

He must have gotten an F in ethics.<\/p>\n

NYC socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and a pal stole a table while an undergraduate at Bowdoin College in Maine \u2014 only admitting to the heist in the campus newspaper after security had him dead to rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would occasionally use the table in my room. You know, for that game with the red Solo cups and a few ping-pong balls,\u201d the future defund-the-police Queens assemblyman recalled in a Sept. 16, 2011 column for The Bowdoin Orient, titled \u201cIdiots Steal Table<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot a drinking game though, because that would be against the rules, so we play with water. Just as much fun with twice the hydration.\u201d<\/p>\n

NYC socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani (left) stole a table while an undergraduate at Bowdoin College \u2014 only admitting to the heist in the campus newspaper after security had him dead to rights. REUTERS<\/p>\n

And the \u201ccrime\u201d was premeditated \u2014 Mamdani admitted to eyeing the piece since he was a freshman the year before, he wrote.<\/p>\n

He claimed he grew so fond of the furniture that he plotted with a buddy to \u201cborrow the table for a few nights\u201d at his new campus living quarters by carrying it \u201cin broad daylight\u201d from one building to another, The Maine Wire<\/a> first reported.<\/p>\n

Mamdani wrongly assumed there were no security cameras along his getaway path, so his jaw dropped the following day when he got a call from Randy Nichols, a retired Maine State Trooper <\/a>who then ran the nearly $65,000-a-year college\u2019s security.<\/p>\n

Mamdani during his senior year at Bowdoin in 2014. Bowdoin SJP\/ Facebook<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it had to do with a crime to report, since I also cover the crime beat for this paper. In a way, I wasn\u2019t wrong,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis first words to me on the phone: \u2018Zohran, do you have any knowledge on the whereabouts of a bench from second floor West?\u2019 I couldn\u2019t believe it, and yet I kind of did. But before we established ourselves as the worst borrowers in history, I needed clarification: \u2018A bench or a table, Mr. Nichols?\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n

The crime of stealing the table was premeditated, since Mamdani eyed the piece since he was a freshman the year before, the future anti-police pol wrote in a Sept. 16, 2011 column for The Bowdoin Orient, titled \u201cIdiots Steal Table.\u201d AP<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the end of the conversation, I had admitted to having taken a table from [the] second floor [of the] West [building] without asking anyone, and also to having been an idiot in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani, however, insisted in his column he still had \u201cnothing but love\u201d for Nichols \u2014 and was ready to deal with the consequences, whatever they would be.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s to the man with the deepest voice I\u2019ve ever heard and the trendiest wrist-bands on campus, continuing to catch idiot table-snatching thieves for years to come. And to my meeting with my dean next week,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Mamdani graduated the Maine college in 2014 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Africana studies. The Bowdoin Orient<\/p>\n

It is unclear if Mamdani received any punishment.<\/p>\n

Nichols did not return messages.<\/p>\n

Reps for Mamdani, who graduated in 2014 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Africana studies, did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He must have gotten an F in ethics. NYC socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and a pal stole…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,49765,2871,4219,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-113894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-burglaries","10":"tag-college","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114961149114029178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}