If you want to be among the cool crowd in the New Zealand city of Porirua, it’s obvious what you need to do. It simply requires attaching huge speakers to your car’s roof and blasting out Celine Dion songs as loud as possible.
Porirua, a small city in the Wellington region in the country’s North Island, has seen drivers decking their vehicles with public emergency-grade warning systems and turning the volume up to 11. The so-called “siren battles” are seeing drivers looking to outdo each other in the loudometer.
