A CALIFORNIA DAD will not face charges after he turned down down his son’s music… with a shotgun.

Stanislaw Grzegorz Jarmolowicz from Yuba County was arrested earlier this week at his home after police received calls reporting gunshot sounds. Jarmolowicz has asked his son several times to turn down his music, and when he thought he was being disobeyed, he reached for his shotgun.

It wasn’t his 24-year-old son who was in the firing line though: it was the stereo.

Yuba County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Melanie Oakes said:

The son said he turned down the stereo, but dad thought he didn’t, and shot the speakers out with a shotgun after first telling his son to get out of the way.

It’s not clear what music was playing to make Jarmolowicz so enraged.

This isn’t the first time music and the law have come face to face….

• In 2009 a Bruce Springsteen fan in the UK was given a 12-month community order for blaring The Boss all hours of the day and night. 61-year-old John Norman played the Born in the USA album on constant loop, but his neighbours finally had some peace after 112 complaints.

• In 2008 a Los Angeles man killed his neighbour after they got into a scuffle over loud music. Reymondo Serrato, 58, pulled a gun on Jebenal Guillen, who police described as ‘the neighbourhood pest’.

• in 2007 it was reported that Police in Birmingham were going to confiscate the cars of drivers blaring loud music. The Noise Abatement Society (yes, really) says they are a ‘thundering nuisance’.