Russian five-year-olds dig their way out of nursery...

September 9, 2015 6:05 PM

to buy sports car. they had come from their kindergarten to buy a Jaguar but did not have any money.

She put them in her car and drove them to a police station.

The boys had prepared their escape for several days, digging a hole under a fence using spades from the sandpit...

posted by pos (12 comments total)

A pixar version of a nursery re-enactment of the Shawshank Redemption, commented TheOLEDman.
posted by pos at 6:11 PM on September 9, 2015 [4 favorites]

Did anyone else feel a bit sorry for the supervisor? Maybe it is just me, but that seemed like an extremely hard event to predict and plan for. And, it could lead to future supervisors running the centre much more like a prison.
posted by greenhornet at 6:23 PM on September 9, 2015 [5 favorites]

I think I found the school in question...
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 6:28 PM on September 9, 2015 [2 favorites]

Did anyone else feel a bit sorry for the supervisor?

Many of the comments on The Guardian seem to go along the lines of, well if this had happened here, the supervisor would've been vilified by the masses, suspended/punished/held culpable, etc.
posted by pos at 6:32 PM on September 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

ROU_Xenophobe beat me to it. I was going to use this picture though.
posted by Poldo at 6:48 PM on September 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

No one escapes from Napmat 17!
posted by vrakatar at 6:54 PM on September 9, 2015 [6 favorites]

Someone I knew back in the day was certain that little Russian children are far smarter, stronger and more beautiful than little American children... I think she was proven correct....
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 7:09 PM on September 9, 2015

mmm Jaguars kids make great exports innit

little Russian children are far smarter, stronger and more beautiful than little American children...

Stay tuned for FX's The Americans, Season 4...

and further development in the "developing world"
posted by pos at 7:19 PM on September 9, 2015

Local educational authorities responded by firing the supervisor in charge at the time and giving a warning to the acting head.

Wow. Getting taught by a tot is a taut tort.
posted by oulipian at 8:01 PM on September 9, 2015 [3 favorites]

Great story. Amazing mindset of these two.
posted by Oyéah at 9:19 PM on September 9, 2015

The beauty of this article is the utter lack of editorializing. Just the absurd, hilarious facts.
posted by HotToddy at 9:46 AM on September 10, 2015 [1 favorite]

Yeah, as a (slightly older) kid I frequently slipped away from supervising adults to go wander in the woods at summer camp. My sympathies are with the supervisor.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 12:29 PM on September 10, 2015