The former Bowdoin grad who’s on goal to become NYC’s next mayor should be well-equipped to handle the Big Apple’s crime epidemic.
By his own admission, Zohran Mamdani stole a table from the school while an undergrad there in 2011.
Mamdani, who wants to defund New York’s finest if he wins the general election, will fit in well with the city’s underbelly.
He wrote a column in The Bowdoin Orient his sophomore year outing himself for co-opting university property.
Mamdani said he and a co-conspirator took the table from an area near his dorm and took it back to his room. He headlined his piece, “Idiots Steal Table.”
“The idea was to borrow a table for a few nights,” he wrote in the student newspaper.
“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. Not a drinking game though, because that would be against the rules, so we play with water. Just as much fun with twice the hydration.”
Ha ha.
The would-be mayor figured there weren’t many security cameras around so he thought he could get away with it.
But he realized too soon that he was wrong.
Mamdani got a call from Randy Nichols, a retired Maine State Police trooper who was then head of Bowdoin security.
“His first words to me on the phone: ‘Zohran, do you have any knowledge on the whereabouts of a bench from second floor west?’
“I couldn’t believe it, and yet I kind of did. But before we established ourselves as the worst borrowers in history, I needed clarification: ‘A bench or a table, Mr. Nichols?’
“By the end of the conversation, I had admitted to having taken a table without asking anyone.”
In the column, Mamdani referenced Bowdoin’s chief of security as ‘Raaaaaandy,’ in an apparent reference to the shirtless assistant of Mr. Lahey in the Canadian comedy series “Trailer Park Boys,” essentially the way well-heeled New Yorkers look at us parochial Mainers.
Mamdani, a legend in his own mind, wasn’t smart enough to realize he shouldn’t play cat and mouse with one of the best troopers Maine has ever known.
Zohran Mamdani – New York City’s chief crime-fighter-to-be?
Not if Curtis Sliwa, the Republican mayoral candidate and founder of the famous Guardian Angels crime-fighting group, has anything to do with it.
