‘Nee-nah’ or ‘woo-woo’: British police apologize for testing their siren

Noise complaints are one of the more tedious tasks handled by the police. But what happens if the cops are the ones responsible for the noise?

That’s what happened in Swindon, UK, where the police had to apologize for blaring their sirens for completely non-emergency reasons. The officers were blaring their horns in an attempt to distinguish whether the sound they omit was “nee-nah” or “woo-woo.”

The inquiry came from school children the officers were visiting as part of a presentation. The police force later took to Facebook to apologized for the noise disruption with the following message.

Apologies to anyone in the Haydonleigh area who may have been disturbed by our sirens yesterday morning – the PCSOs were at the Primary School having a very important debate with the new Reception Year children about whether they go nee-nah or woo-woo.

Our thanks to the teachers and pupils from the Robins, Puffins and Duckling classes for being so attentive to our ‘People Who Help Us’ talk, we were very impressed by your beautiful behaviour, thoughtful questions and knowledge about the police. We especially liked the suggestion that we should have police rhinos, and will be looking into the possibility of training them to knock down the ‘baddies’ front doors.