--- title: Russian Boys Tunnel Out of Preschool To Buy Sports Car description: The pair had spent days digging a hole under the playground fence with toy spades from the sandbox. canonical: https://time.com/4026084/russia-boys-escape-preschool-kindergarten-sports-car/ author: Helen Regan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-09T07:03:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:25.060Z og:title: Russian Boys Tunnel Out of Preschool To Buy Sports Car og:description: They spent days digging under the fence using toy spades from the sandbox og:url: https://time.com/4026084/russia-boys-escape-preschool-kindergarten-sports-car/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Russian Boys Tunnel Out of Preschool To Buy Sports Car twitter:description: They spent days digging under the fence using toy spades from the sandbox twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Two 5-Year-Old Russian Boys Tunneled Their Way Out of Preschool to Buy a Sports Car ## Video: Jaguar F-Type R Coupe Eats Up the Road [Watch (HLS stream): Jaguar F-Type R Coupe Eats Up the Road](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8zCRHhf7.m3u8) (2:42)  _Published 2014-11-13. Don't let this Jag's understated British heritage fool you. The car goes from zero to 60 in 4 seconds, and can hit 186 miles per hour._ by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Sep 9, 2015 7:03 AM UTC by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Sep 9, 2015 7:03 AM UTC A pair of five-year-old boys in Russia managed to [escape](http://news.yahoo.com/russian-5-olds-dig-tunnel-nursery-buy-jaguar-144541007.html) their kindergarten by digging a hole under a fence with toy spades and went on a daring mission to buy a sports car. The intrepid youngsters had apparently been digging their escape route for several days, writes Agence France-Presse.They then made their move when teachers and students were on a walk in the kindergarten grounds. After breaking free of their nursery school in the city of Magnitogorsk, in the Urals region, the pair walked just over a mile to a luxury car showroom. When a woman saw the unaccompanied boys and asked what they were doing, they replied that they wanted to buy a Jaguar but didn’t have any money, local paper _Komsomolskaya Pravda_ reported. The children were then taken to a police station. The teacher in charge at the time has been fired from the kindergarten and the acting head was given a warning. \[[AFP](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/08/russian-5-year-olds-tunneled-out-nursery-jaguar-sports-car)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4026084/russia-boys-escape-preschool-kindergarten-sports-car/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4026084/russia-boys-escape-preschool-kindergarten-sports-car/"},"headline":"Two 5-Year-Old Russian Boys Tunneled Their Way Out of Preschool to Buy a Sports Car","datePublished":"2015-09-09T07:03:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:25.060Z","description":"They had apparently been working on their escape route for days","url":"https://time.com/4026084/russia-boys-escape-preschool-kindergarten-sports-car/","keywords":["Newsfeed","russia","School","Bizarre","World","boys","escape"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4026084/russia-boys-escape-preschool-kindergarten-sports-car/","name":"Two 5-Year-Old Russian Boys Tunneled Their Way Out of Preschool to Buy a Sports Car"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Jaguar F-Type R Coupe Eats Up the Road","description":"Don't let this Jag's understated British heritage fool you. 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