In West Africa, in particular Nigeria, there is a so-called 'talking drum'. The one I've seen is a fairly conventional long heavy conga drum, placed vertically in a frame and played with a straight stick and an L-shaped one. The drummer makes the drum talk by pressing on the skin and moving his hand about while beating the drum with the other hand. A surprisingly articulate range of sounds can result.
I am no expert though, and there may well be many other kinds of drum used for communication. A musician friend used to have a talking drummer in his band, and I often observed him at work from close quarters. However he was making music with a dozen or more other performers, not sending signals.
If the story in the OP is true, it is clearly malicious and mischievous of that lady to have complained, and even more clearly criminally idiotic of the council to take the complaint seriously. However the piece from the DM website looks as if it was written by a ten-year-old. Piece of crap.
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