Susan Schmidt says she was enjoying an evening in her backyard at the Golf Villa Apartments in Manteca when a rogue golf ball from the nearby course slammed straight into her chest, sending her to the emergency room.

"I ended up with a pleural effusion on the outside of my heart," she said. "Basically, it's like a big blood blister, and so they went in with a needle and drained it, and I'm like, 'This is it.' "

For months, Schmidt has been collecting hundreds of rogue golf balls that have entered her yard from the Manteca Park Golf Course . She and her neighbor, Elizabeth Perez, have taken their concerns to the city several times, where now, action is being taken.

"With that information and all her pictures and telling her story, and the fact that my neighbors wouldn't allow their k

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