MADERA, Calif. (KMPH) -
"I'm just annoyed. It's obnoxious. I'm angry. It's inconvenient," Christie Baymiller said as she looked at her car.
Baymiller woke up Tuesday morning to an unpleasant phone call from her neighbor.
"Somebody had told her that a bunch of cars were tagged in the neighborhood. And she said, tell your next door neighbor that her car got tagged," Baymiller said.
She ran outside to the beloved car she calls "Kip".
"We went to the other side of my car and it said 'west side' on it and we were not happy. We tried hosing it down to see if anything would come off, but nothing worked really," Baymiller said.
But Christie wasn't the only one who woke up Tuesday morning to find her car defaced.
Doris Sanders came outside around 4:30 a.m. to go to work and found two of her cars had been hit.
"It doesn't scare me. It makes me mad," Sanders said. "I'm driving a rental."
But it didn't stop there.
Doris' neighbor's garage also got tagged, as well as other cars, trucks, RVs and fences around the neighborhood.
"They just went down all through the neighborhood and wrote the ‘west side' on everything," Sanders said.
Neighbors tell KMPH News they think the people who did this are some bad seeds in their own neighborhood.
"I think society is going crazy" Sanders said.
"I can't imagine ever doing something like that when I was younger. So it makes me feel pathetic for those kids," Baymiller said.
Madera police tell KMPH News they've received at least five reports about the vandalism.
Because of it, they're stepping up enforcement, deploying the department's "Community Response Team" to canvass the area.
Officers also say the vandalism does not appear to be gang-related.
