Vandals leave trail of glass shards across Townsville
Fed-up car owners are posting their shattered windows to social media, but police say incidents of the costly, blunt-force vandalism are not on the rise.
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Fed-up car owners are posting their shattered windows to social media, but police say incidents of the costly, blunt-force vandalism are not on the rise.
A particularly blatant case of vandalism was splashed across social media on Monday morning, December 30, when a pedestrian noticed about seven cars parked overnight near the Magnetic Island ferry terminal that had been broken into.
Six had their driver or passenger windows smashed in, a seventh was a work ute whose rear tool boxes had been forced open.
Townsville Police said they were aware of the incident.
“Police would not consider these latest incidents to be a sign of any trend,” a spokesperson said.
“We would always encourage anyone with information or CCTV footage of the areas to come forward to assist with inquiries into these incidents.”
One fed-up owner, Lyn Glasgow, posted pictures of her smashed driver’s window which she said happened on December 28 when it was parked on Ross River Rd.
“There were three or four cars parked on the road between United servo and Willows with broken windows,” she reported.
“They (vandals) actually came back overnight to pick up their tool they had dropped under my car.”
Over on Riverway Dr, Kelly Moroney’s car sustained massive damage to the rear window on December 27.
“My older daughter thinks she heard it happen Friday night. A car drove past our vehicle parked out the front of our house on Riverway Dr, Friday night about 9pm,” she said.
“The vehicle didn’t stop but she heard the sound of a thud and then shattering glass. She didn’t realise it was our car. We saw the damage in the morning.”
Ms Moroney said a vehicle up the road from theirs was also damaged, and she’d heard of two other car owners in Kelso having their windows broken on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
One of those cars is a Holden SUV belonging to Sandy Moore.
Ms Moore said she initially thought her seriously shattered rear window was due to a motorbike throwing up a stone, but after seeing other’s experiences she suspects it was vandalism too.
Her car was parked in her driveway the night of December 25 when it was hit with enough force to create a huge hole in the rear window.
Another resident reported a windscreen being shattered on a car parked in Howitt St, North Ward.
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