{"id":51748,"date":"2020-09-05T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/resident-puts-end-to-rogue-driving-range\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:57:21","slug":"resident-puts-end-to-rogue-driving-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/resident-puts-end-to-rogue-driving-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident puts end to rogue driving range"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8ac09d91-7337-406e-8f80-ae938dd44688&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1090\" alt=\"Joe Lewandowski holds a golf ball Thursday that broke a pane in his neighbors townhouse window on O\u2019Brien Drive off Florida Road.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Joe Lewandowski holds a golf ball Thursday that broke a pane in his neighbors townhouse window on O\u2019Brien Drive off Florida Road.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Frustrated by golf balls whizzing through the air and pelting the eight-unit townhouse complex where he lives, one resident decided to take action.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Lewandowski searched the location on the college mesa where he suspected the golf balls were being launched above his home on O\u2019Brien Drive, off Florida Road. He discovered a golf club and a bag of golf balls off a trail about 150 yards from the parking lot of Hillcrest Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA golf ball flying down from above can be lethal. It has a lot of force from gravity behind it. It could kill someone if it smacked them in the head,\u201d Lewandowski said.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=eee15e1e-70e5-415d-8b23-c2fb725280f4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"A golf club and balls found by Joe Lewandowski on Thursday on college mesa above his townhouse on O&amp;#x2019;Brien Drive off Florida Road.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A golf club and balls found by Joe Lewandowski on Thursday on college mesa above his townhouse on O&amp;#x2019;Brien Drive off Florida Road.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>He suspects pranksters were having fun, either not realizing or caring about the danger they courted.<\/p>\n<p>One pane of a window in the complex was shattered by a golf ball Thursday evening, and for the past several days, golf balls have been slamming into the sides of their homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI disabled the golf club and took the bag of golf balls, and I left a note to whoever was doing this,\u201d Lewandowski said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he will turn over the club \u2013 a King Cobra 7-wood now broken into two pieces \u2013 and the bag of golf balls to the Durango Police Department to help with an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe called police, and they did a drive-by of where we suspected the golf balls were coming from, but something like this is pretty tough for them to deal with,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@durangoherald.com\">parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>balls, golf club discovered and disabled by resident concerned about projectiles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,2261,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-golf","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87995,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51748\/revisions\/87995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51748"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}