Zohran Mamdani, a socialist mayoral frontrunner in NYC, admitted to stealing a table during his time at Bowdoin College. He described the theft in a college column, claiming it was premeditated and carried out in broad daylight. Mamdani thought he could get away with the act, assuming there were no security cameras in the area. After being confronted by college security, he ultimately confessed to the theft and acknowledged he was foolish in his actions.
"I would occasionally use the table in my room. You know, for that game with the red Solo cups and a few ping-pong balls," the future defund-the-police Queens assemblyman recalled in a Sept. 16, 2011 column for The Bowdoin Orient, titled "Idiots Steal Table."
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 who then ran the nearly $65,000-a-year college's security.
By 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.
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