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FURIOUS, frustrated and distressed - that's how Boambee East residents feel after a violent rampage which trashed their cars and homes.

Louts went berserk in the streets between Bruce King Drive and Linden Avenue on Thursday night, smashing windows and mirrors on no less than six vehicles and hitting a newly rebuilt house inundated in the March 31 floods.

Yesterday morning, police were run off their feet as they went door to door interviewing householders.

Good, decent people like young dad Jason Vallely, whose car windscreen was obliterated with a tree branch; Avon consultant Ashleigh Read who can't drive her beloved Volkswagen Superbug until her smashed side mirror is repaired; and mother-of-five Katrina Winkler, who couldn't believe it when she looked up from her vacuuming and saw both mirrors snapped off the family car.

And then there's Sheena Paden-Smith - she's waited four long months to move back to her home which had to be rebuilt after the floods.

Thursday's final lick of paint meant she was right to return, only to learn yesterday morning hoods had hurled a brick through her new back glass and then used one of her old doors as a battering ram to finish off the job.

When they couldn't find anything to take from inside, they tried to get out through the brand new front door and wrenched it from its hinges when they discovered it locked.

They then ransacked Sheena's shed and ran off with an esky and personal belongings.

“I've been cleaning up glass this morning. I'm sick of it. I was so excited about getting back in the house,” she told the Advocate.

Jason Vallely, a TAFE teacher, has been saving up to fix the engine on his unregistered Kia Rio hatch parked in his front yard.

But hoons lifted the cover and bashed the back windscreen with a tree branch they grabbed from the park across the road.

“I've cleaned up the glass shards. My kids play here on the grass,” Jason said.

“A new windscreen will probably cost me $300 or $400.”

Katrina Winkler was still sleep deprived from Wednesday night when trespassers bowled over her bins, so the $500 damage to her car the following night has only made matters worse.

“I was going out today with the kids, now I'm stuck at home. I can't do the grocery shopping,” Katrina said.

• Bruce King Drive: Two side mirrors snapped on a sedan.

• Meadowview Close: Rear windscreen smashed on a hatchback.

• Charkate Close: a house and garage broken into.

• Annandale Court: two mirrors smashed on a station wagon; a Volkswagen mirror trashed; a rear window smashed on a panel van and two fire extinguishers are removed.

• Linden Avenue: a front window is smashed on a utility and the roof is jumped on and caves in.

Elsewhere the same night

• Ramornie Drive Toormina: a window is smashed on a Winnebago and a reversing camera is stolen.

• Park Beach Road Coffs Harbour: a front window is smashed on a bus and a fire extinguisher aboard is discharged and chucked on the ground.

• Victoria Street Coffs Harbour: a Barina back window smashed.