This is not too far from what my future could be.

Barney Vincelette on bad music:

“Many people just assume that you should be able to have this music in your backyard. But it is such an ugly music that it takes over one’s life,” he said. “That’s why I fight back against it.”

Vincelette is so sensitive to noise that he’s gone as far as shooting and killing a dog that barked nonstop outside his apartment. He paid a $100 fine and was evicted.

And, on smoking in public places:

In the spring of 1977, when he was a graduate student at the University of Georgia, he got into a confrontation with a woman who was smoking cigarettes nearby.

She blew smoke in his face. He took out a spray can filled with tear gas and fired it at her face. It also hit her boyfriend’s face.

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