Two weeks of repeated car window smashing is frustrating Burlingame police searching the city for the vandals.
At least 17 car windows were smashed between Nov. 14 and Nov. 25. At least seven of the broken windows were caused by a large rock or river rocks being thrown through the windows, said Burlingame police Cmdr. Brad Floyd.
On Nov. 14, four car windows were smashed. Two were reported in the morning on the 1100 block of Bernal Avenue and the 100 block of Bernal Avenue. At 10:14 p.m. and 10:27 p.m., victims called police to report their car windows were just broken with rocks on the first block of Carol Avenue and the 1100 block of Palm Drive.
The next morning police discovered rocks were thrown through five other car windows on the 1000 block of Capuchino Avenue, 100 block of Costa Rica Avenue, 700 block of Acacia Drive, 700 block of Walnut Avenue and the 900 block of Chula Vista Avenue. All the calls were reported between 6:46 a.m. and 8:45 a.m., according to police records.
At 10:56 p.m. Nov. 22, a car window was reported smashed on the 1100 block of Vancouver Avenue.
The next day, six more victims reported their car windows being smashed on the 900 block of Paloma Avenue, 1900 block of Trousdale Drive, 1100 block of Vancouver, the corner of California and Murchison drives and two windows were smashed on the 800 block of Crossway Road. Two victims report finding a large rock at the scene.
On Nov. 25, a window was smashed on a car parked near Lunardi’s on the 1800 block of El Camino Real.
Police are still determining if all the incidents are tied together, but "the ones plainly described as rocks through a window have a good chance of being tied together because of the close time frame,” Floyd said in an e-mail yesterday.
Police are actively investigating the spree and ask anyone with information to call the department at 777-4100.
Dana Yates can be reached by e-mail: dana@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650) 344-5200 ext. 106. What do you think of this story? Send a letter to the editor: letters@smdailyjournal.com.<
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