A group of pensioners living in Dunedin's student area no longer feel safe in their homes after a group of youths smashed their car windows.
Cheryl Brook, 70, said she was woken late on Saturday night by males yelling outside her flat in Brook St, then heard several loud bangs.
She was too frightened to go outside to see what was going on, but yesterday morning she ventured out and discovered her car and two others had been damaged.
She said it appeared the perpetrators had scavenged through her neighbour's wheelie bins, looking for something to throw at the cars, before settling on a terracotta pot plant sitting on a doorstep.
It was thrown through the back window of the first car, retrieved and then thrown through the back window of a second car, retrieved again and then thrown at the windscreen of a third car.