Video player not working?0:000:000:00SettingsQualityAutoAudioSpeed1×CaptionsOffWhistle Tip Whoo WhooDula TVFunny videos since 2008Thumbs up0Thumbs down0 Share1.6K views Dec 2009An Oakland news report examines whistle tips that make cars blare a loud “woo woo,” annoying neighbors and prompting residents to seek a ban. Show transcript0:00The latest rage for kids is driving parents and entire neighborhoods crazy.0:06It's called a whistle tip, and it's welded inside a car's muffler to make the car screechingly loud for nearly a mile.0:15Well, tomorrow night, Oakland residents will be complaining officially to City Hall officials.0:19Crime Force Mark Jones has the story live in Oakland this evening.0:22Mark.0:23Well, Pam, city residents have been told this noise is perfectly legal, so tomorrow they hope to start the process to change the law.0:32Nearly every muffler shop in Oakland is installing whistler tips.0:36It's a piece of metal welded inside the exhaust pipes that makes the car audible for almost a mile.0:44Tell me about the whistles.0:45The whistles go woo.0:47Anybody that has it in their neighborhood is going to be totally driven crazy.0:51It sounds like what?0:52Well, you want a woo woo? It's that woo woo, you know what I'm saying?0:56Then you got the flows, they didn't trip off the flow masses.0:58That decoration, man, it's just for decoration.1:01That's it.1:02That's all, man. We do it for decoration.1:03You have it on your car?1:05Yeah, I got it on my car.1:06It was being installed on their car.1:10Roxanne Bruns says the high-pitched tone, like the squeal of a bar train that doesn't stop, is keeping her awake at night.1:17Police have told her it is legal.1:19They think it's a fad, it's going to go away. It's not going away.1:24And it's driving you nuts.1:25It's driving me nuts. I work at home. Uh, I can't concentrate when it goes on for, for, you know, hours.1:34Some neighbors are saying way too loud.1:35That's only in the morning. You supposed to be up cooking breakfast or something by then, so that's like an alarm clock.1:42Woo woo!1:45Bub, Rub, and Little Sis were proud to show it off.1:51Some Oakland residents will complain about the noisemakers Tuesday night at the city council meeting.1:56Until the law changes, Marcelo Cabrera says he will keep installing them.2:01Would you want it in your neighborhood?2:02No, I won't. I won't, but that's what I want, and you know, my business is sell the pipe, so I have to sell whatever they want, and whatever people want, I'll sell it.2:11An AC Transit bus driver told us the noise is so loud you can't even hear the siren from an approaching ambulance.2:17So far, they've caused no known accidents. In Oakland, Mark Jones, Crown 4.
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