If your kids struggled to find their back-to-school groove this past week, spare a thought for a couple of five-year-old boys in Russia.
The kindergartners masterminded an escape, Shawshank-style, from their school by digging a tunnel under the fence. For real.
Using shovels from the school sandbox, the cunning pair worked on their route for several days, eventually seizing their moment. They crawled through the tunnel and ended up - where else - at a luxury car dealership.
They were found eyeing up a Jaguar in the showroom two kilometres from the tunnel's end, when a concerned woman turned them over to police.
The scariest part about this story? No one even noticed they were gone "for about an hour."
"This is considered a very serious violation," said the head of the Magnitogorsk preschool, Olga Denisenko, who happily sacked the teacher on duty at the time the boys disappeared.
These are not fugitives or hardened criminals, people, but kindergartners.
Kindergartners, who should be climbing like monkeys and learning their ABCs and 123s. Shudder to think what they'd be capable of engineering, come third grade...
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