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2 Chinese Men Illegally Cross Russian Border on Lawnmower
Created: 05.11.2005 12:08 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:08 MSK

Russian border officials in the country’s Far East have arrested two Chinese men who attempted to sneak across the border into Russia on a lawnmower, local media reported.

When they were stopped, the unauthorized immigrants claimed they had got lost while cutting grass. They showed a note on Broken Russian written by hand, but with their photographs saying: “We are workers, who clean fire-prevention zone. We got lost. Please, return me to China�. They claimed it was given by Chinese forest police.

Russian authorities said this was not the first time that illegal entrants had claimed to be lost gardeners.