I'm not the person you are replying to, but there is a possible explanation if the person is American. In 1964 the FAA organized an experiment to perform supersonic fly-overs of Oklahoma City over a period of 6 months. Quoting from Wikipedia "the experiment was intended to quantify the effects of transcontinental supersonic transport (SST) aircraft on a city, to measure the booms' effect on structures and public attitude, and to develop standards for boom prediction and insurance data."

Link to the wiki page if you are curious

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests

Here are some highlights

- The US Airforce performed ~8 booms per day between 7am and the afternoon

- In the first 14 weeks, 147 windows in the city's two tallest buildings were broken

- An attempt to lodge an injunction against the tests was denied by a district court judge, who said that the plaintiffs could not establish that they suffered any mental or physical harm and that the tests were a vital national need

- Testing was paused for a time when activist groups sought a restraining order against the testing

- The Saturday Review published an article titled The Era of Supersonic Morality, which criticized the manner in which the FAA had targeted a city without consulting local government

- All this public pressure ended the testing early

- There were 9,594 complaints of damage to buildings, 4,629 formal damage claims, and 229 claims for a total of $12,845.32, mostly for broken glass and cracked plaster.