Barney Vincelette, who says his autism renders loud noises sickening to him, has been feuding for several years with neighbours in Houston, over their rock music.

At first, he invented his own sound-jammer, according to an April profile in the Wilmington News Journal, but a judge curtailed its use.

Subsequently, he recorded super-annoying sounds of his own (including a foghorn) and had them written out as music ('Sonata for Calliope of Truck Horns About to Be Transcribed for Locomotive Horns Opus No. 1'), at which point the judge decided that permitting the neighbours' Bon Jovi but not Vincelette's sonata amounted to selective law enforcement, and the feuders settled their differences.

(Vincelette, by the way, lives in a house shaped like a flying saucer.)