Vandals target car windows in Cobb County

COBB COUNTY, Ga. - It's an act of vandalism so pointless, it has victims scratching their heads.  

Someone has been going around neighborhoods in the Mableton area smashing car windows. It's happened to dozens of people over the past couple of weeks.

This past weekend more than half a dozen windows were smashed in the Inverness Ridge subdivision. There are still shards of glass in Dan Branciforti's driveway where his car was parked. 

"It's kind of random it seems like whoever is parked closest near the streets gets hit," Branciforti said. 

Down the road a truck had the front and back windows smashed out. Neighbors say the vandals aren't stopping or even slowing down long enough to steal anything from inside the vehicles.

Branciforti says it's as if they're just doing damage for the fun of it. 

"It's just kind of pointless, I don't get it," he said. 

Maya Bostick was parked on the street in front of her home in the same neighborhood when someone smashed her window.  

"It was expensive to fix and I'm a student. I don't have money to pay for repairs like this," Bostick said. 

A mile away in the Vinings Plantation subdivision, one man caught the vandals on his surveillance camera. The video shows a car driving past two cars parked in the street, and the sound of glass shattering can be heard.  

One man named Eric can see his car in that video. He says he didn't even know it happened until he got in his car to go to work the next morning.  

"It was 6 o'clock, I got in my car, shut the door and I heard glass fall, I looked back and my window was gone," he said. 

Neighbors are frustrated with the pointless vandalism. Some have put up surveillance cameras. Others are making sure they park in the garage. All of them are hoping the vandals get caught sooner rather than later.