Pranksters Put TARDIS On MIT Roof

Pranksters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology placed a replica of a famous time machine on the roof of a campus building. The prank involved the TARDIS, an old-style British police call box used for time travel on the long-running sci-fi program “Doctor Who,” being placed atop Building 7 on campus late Wednesday or early Thursday. The prank was part of a campus tradition known as “hacking,” which hacks.mit.edu defines as perpetrating a “clever, benign and ‘ethical’ prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT community.”