MIT Campus Cruiser on the Great Dome
MIT Students are famous for their practical jokes, which they call hacks. A particularly famouse practical joke, or hack, at MIT resulted in the appearance of a campus police cruiser on top of their "Great Dome" building on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Campus. It was complete with a dummy police officer, a toy foam disc gun, and a box of donuts inside of the makeshift vehicle as well as flashing siren lights on top. The car also had a parking ticket on the windshield for being parked in a non-zoned area. Every detail was considered on this practical joke proving why MIT is such a difficult school to be accepted to.
The car, was in fact just the outer parts of a chevrolet cavalier attached to a wooden frame and painted to look like a campus police vehicle. The prank was noticed early in the morning and attracted tremendous local media attention. The story eventually reached all corners of the globe, thus making it a famous prank.
It took campus authorities a few hours to dissasemble the makeshift campus cruiser and remove it from the Great Done. It was finally gone by 10:00 AM, but the legend of this famous MIT Hack lives on!
