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Whistle tips
Whistle tips, also known as whistler tips, are a piece of metal installed into the exhaust pipe of a car in order to make a high pitched whistling noise audible for up to a mile. They are mostly popular in Oakland, California, USA, where they achieved notable recognition after a KRON-TV newscast that featured a man who identified himself only as Bubb Rubb who told reporters that "the whistles go wooooooooooo", "When you want the woo woooooo, it's that woo woooooo, you know what I'm sayin'", "That's only in the mornin', you (suppossed) to be up cookin' (breakfast) or somethin' by then, so it's like an alarm clock.
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