Turn the Tooltip Bootstrap functionality off

Question

According the documentation is is possible to turn off the functionality just doing $(\'body\').off(\'.alert.data-api\').
In the case of tooltip I tried the

Answer 1

Can you try:

$('a[rel=tooltip]').tooltip();
$('a[rel=tooltip]').off('.tooltip');

Don't forget to change the selector. Works fine for me... http://jsfiddle.net/D9JTZ/