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Maybe they were headed to MR's house to help with his project. From the Mpls paper:

Two 10-year-old boys caused up to $500,000 in damage at a construction site in north Minneapolis after they took a bulldozer for a ride, authorities said Tuesday.

City Communications Director Gail Plewacki said the policy is for workers to remove keys from the ignitions of equipment after use, and a city employee at the site said he followed it. The case was under investigation, she said.

Police spokesman Ron Reier said the boys were arrested about 6 p.m. Sunday. They may be charged with felonies, he said.

Reier said the youngsters got inside a fenced-off Heritage Park development along state Highway 55 and used the bulldozer to crush a construction trailer and knock down a power line, which kept nearby KMOJ-FM off the air for more than 16 hours.

Damaged construction siteJerry HoltStar Tribune``The parents might have to stand with their kids on this one,'' disk jockey Sam Soulprano told KSTP-TV. ``Teach them both a lesson.''

Workers returned to the construction site Tuesday with new equipment.

``They did the damage, you got to put the blame on them,'' said city worker Arnold Kleinschmidt. ``You can't hold their hands and say 'Well, they didn't know any better' and all of that. I don't buy that.''

One city worker told the television station that this was not the first time that there has been damage done to the construction site. However, the worker said none of the previous incidents was so severe.