Soon after the snare drums snapped outside Liberty High School, a sheriff?s deputy showed up with a decibel meter.

The school?s marching band, the deputy declared last summer, had violated a 65-decibel noise limit enacted to silence annoying off-road vehicles such as ATVs.

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