Mastermind five-year-olds break out of kindy to buy sports car

Now, I live with some cheeky monkeys whose opportunistic crimes include sneaking Milo by the spoonful and claiming a clean room when they’ve hidden everything under the bed..but two Russian  fiveyearolds have put their criminal acts to shame.

The two cherub-faced kindy students used spades to dig their way out of their kindergarten this week on a quest to buy a Jaguar sports car, the Komsomolskaya Pravda reported.

The operation was ingenious”¦the boys had been tunneling for days with sandpit toys near a fence, their plan only fell apart when a customer found them and their lack of funds at a luxury car showroom.

The five-year-old boys had disappeared while on a supervised walk in the kindergarten grounds in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk.

After breaking free in Shawshank Redemption style, the young’uns walked two kilometres to a luxury car yard.  When a female driver noticed the unlikely suspects, the boys told her they had left their kindergarten to buy a Jaguar; but didn’t have any money.

The driver took the unaccompanied minors to a police station.

Kindergarten workers noticed the escape half an hour after their getaway; causing the supervisor in charge to lose their job over the incident.

“This is considered a very serious violation,” Olga Denisenko, head of the pre-school department of Magnitogorsk, told Komsomolskaya Pravda.

But one has to marvel at the brains it takes to pull off such a manoeuvre at that age. There was a clear intent with its hatching. What will these little people will be capable of when they are older?

I know these boys’ parents would be mortified but I have a tinge of admiration for these kids. It’s the same tinge I get when my children are cleverly deceptive (not about cleaning their room) or tell an insulting truth in public. It’s always a battle between trying to wipe the smile off your face and act in a disciplinary way. I wonder if these boys’ parents had to hide a smirk while taking in the news of their children’s organised crime.

I have a early, but clear memory of slipping Freddo frogs into my pockets at the corner store after my mum refused to buy them for me. When we got in the car, I must have been chomping on them because she asked me what I was eating. On my chocolately admittance she marched me back in to return the rest and apologise for my theft. And there ended my life of crime. I don’t think she found it funny, but maybe because it lacked invention and intelligence. I did not exactly think outside the box.

Intellect plus criminal intent is an incredible combination.

I wonder how the Russian parents will teach their children it is wrong to plan to break out of kindy and walk two kilometres to buy a sports car? I think these children might be destined for big things. Hopefully they can use their power for good.