Excuse us, please, but what is that weird disembodied giggling we're hearing over Williamsburg? What's that jaunty, tinkling tune beaming out across North Brooklyn? Could it be that with summer's official ending, the Mr. Softee LinkNYC prankster found a new and innovative way to haunt us? And sorry, potentially unrelated, but since when does the sun have the face of a human baby?

Reader, there's still so much we just don't know.

What we do know is that someone took the liberty of dressing up an untold number of local LinkNYC kiosks in Teletubby smocks. A tipster submitted four photos, all taken Sunday. Each featured a different data-sponging station, located either on Berry Street or Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, outfitted to look like one of the enormous alien toddlers from your favorite British children's show.

Unfortunately, whoever made the costumes does not appear to have spent much time bringing the eyes alive, resulting in unsettling, dead-eyed monoliths that stare freakishly into the middle distance. Fortunately, at least for those of you who find yourselves unsettled by this spectacle, the suits have now been removed.

But! As you can see, all four Teletubbies — Tinky Winky (the purple one, "a little indecisive but ... also very thoughtful," per the official website); Dipsy (the green one, "funky and groovy, always doing dance moves with his arms"); Laa Laa (the yellow one, "a bundle of good, fun energy"); and Po ("red, cute, and little!") — were represented, at a towering scale that unfortunately reflects their actual height: The original Teletubbies reportedly ranged between 6 (Po) and 11 feet (Tinky Winky) tall, because all beloved children's characters must be alarmingly large, we guess??

Anyway, LinkNYC told Gothamist they had nothing to do with this particular stunt, and that while the company "appreciate[s] New Yorkers’ creativity," it "wouldn’t want Teletubbies to interfere with anyone using Link’s super fast free Wi-Fi and community services." Which, again, may absorb a high volume of your internet information in the process.

We do not currently have any viable leads as to who might have architected this makeshift Teletubbyland. However, since their previous landlord deliberately flooded the scenic pasture where their hovel used to live, perhaps the Teletubbies were just seeking a new home. (And then we had to go and run them out of town!) Or maybe they want to harvest all your data for their own Teletubby purposes! Impossible to say at this juncture, but if you unleashed these mumbling brutes into our streets — or if you know who did — please let us know on our confidential Teletubbies hotline ([email protected]).

And while you're here, bow to your new overlord, the Sunbaby:

Update: This article has been updated to clarify that the Mr. Softee hacker was technically more of a prankster, in that he never wrested control of LinkNYC systems from the company, but instead commandeered the speakers on individual kiosks to blast his carnival-type jingle into the ether. Also, LinkNYC would like to emphasize that it will not "store web browsing history or track the websites of Wi-Fi users." FWIW!