A Granite Bay High School coach is trying to solve a mystery, and it has nothing to do with who's going to be the starting point guard on his girls' basketball team.
Wayne Brummond can't figure out who's hitting golf balls from a hillside home above his residence in Loomis.
For five months, the balls have been raining down on his 3 1/2-acre property on Shallow Creek Road. Brummond suspects they are coming from Ridgewood Drive, about 800 yards from his home.
"They've hit my house, landed in my swimming pool. My kids have found hundreds of balls all over our property," Brummond said.
More details from Art Campos:
The last straw was on April 15 when a ball hit a kitchen window, breaking it. The Brummonds were not at home and returned at 8 p.m. to find the damage, the coach said. That prompted him to call the Placer County Sheriff's Department.
An officer drove along Ridgewood Drive trying to find the source of the balls. The officer could find nothing.
Brummond said he too has driven up to where the hillside homes are, including while the balls have been raining down.
"There are four or five homes up there but you can't see where the balls are coming from," he said.
He said the properties have considerable acreage and there are also trees that make it difficult to spot the source of the balls. In addition, the driveways of the homes are lengthy and he's shy about driving onto the properties and knocking on the doors, he said.
Brummond said the perpetrator has to be aware that he's causing an uneasy situation for him and his family.
"My wife has actually come out of the house and yelled up to the hillside, 'Stop hitting balls. There are people down here,'" Brummond said.
That's caused the golfer to stop hitting the balls, Brummond said. But the assault continues a few days later, he said.
Brummond said all he wants is for the person to stop and to possibly pay for the broken kitchen window.
About Comments
Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee. If you see an objectionable comment, click the "report abuse" button below it. We will delete comments containing inappropriate links, obscenities, hate speech, and personal attacks. Flagrant or repeat violators will be banned. See more about comments here.