Taking Aim » Mosnews Appreciation Society http://www.takingaim.co.uk Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:59:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Tunneling to freedom and back http://www.takingaim.co.uk/how-long-would-this-take/ http://www.takingaim.co.uk/how-long-would-this-take/#comments Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:29:26 +0000 Andy http://www.takingaim.co.uk/?p=354 Clearly their budget was too tight for them to afford both a map and a shoehorn:

Two Egyptian citizens have managed to violate the Russian state border by digging a tunnel under the barbed wire fence with a simple shoehorn. After getting lost on the territory of Poland the Egyptians performed the trick for the second time and got back to Russia to face arrest.

The Interfax news agency quoted the Russian Prosecutor General’s report as saying that the two men were aiming to get to Western Europe via Russia. They obtained a tourist visa and flew to Moscow from where they hitchhiked to the Polish border.

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