New Year’s Eve can be a bit polarizing, especially here in the Philippines. Sure, it’s fun to greet the new year with cheer and festive spreads and all that, but depending on where you live, the ‘celebrations’ can also get a bit too loud.
By these ‘celebrations,’ we’re talking about the loud crowd. Not the ones popping fireworks non-stop at midnight, no—the people riding their loud motorcycles all around town making noise just for the sake of making noise. If you live in the province, you’ll know what we’re talking about. It’s these skeleton bikes with modified and, of course, illegal mufflers that are just too damn loud.
Thankfully in one province—in Bohol, specifically in the City of Tagbilaran—authorities were proactive in dealing with these absurdly loud and often non-road-legal motorcycles. As spotted by ABS-CBN News, the Tagbilaran City Police Station shared early on in December photos of perhaps a hundred confiscated illegal mufflers set to be destroyed by a drum roller, or what we call in Filipino ‘pison.’
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Pictures paint a thousand words, and in this case, these photos say them all. It’s a beautiful sight to see. And if you look around on social media or the Internet, you’ll find that many other LGUs also cracked down on these illegal mufflers during and after New Year’s Eve. We hope to see more of these even outside of the holiday season.
Before we let you go, might we remind you that there are laws that set limits on the decibel outputs of motor-vehicle engines and exhausts. Not to mention that revving your bikes to the limit can also be dangerous—we’ve seen enough videos of bikes blowing up from overrevving to know that there are risks involving these as well. You’ve all been warned.
