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Kelowna woman awakes to find 36 kg rock dropped on her car's windshield

A Kelowna woman woke up on Sunday morning to find someone had dropped a large rock onto her vehicle's windshield and hood outside the home she had just moved into in Kelowna's Rutland neighbourhood.

Bailey Francis's car was vandalized 2 days after she moved into Kelowna's Rutland neighbourhood

The large rock which Francis estimates weighs 80 or 90 pounds smashed her vehicle's windshield and dented and scratched the hood. (Nick Codutti)

It wasn't the kind of "Welcome to the Neighbourhood"Bailey Francis was hoping for.

On Sunday morning just two days after Francis moved into her home in Kelowna's Rutland neighbourhood she woke to find someone had dropped a massive rock onto the windshield and hood of her Nissan Sentra.

"I would say the rock was about 80 to 90 pounds and it smashed my windshield pretty good. It blew up glass all inside my car," she said.

"My car was full of glass and they did some significant paint damage on the hood as well as some dents and they damaged my [windshield] wiper blade."

'She doesn't deserve this at all'

Friend Nick Codutti was helpingFrancis get settled into her new apartment and was with Francis when she saw the vandalism for the first time.

"I was shocked for a second or two, just kind of going in my head like, 'this isn't fair.She doesn't deserve this at all. All she is trying to do is live her life,'" he said.

Bailey Francis' Nissan Sentra was one of two vehicles found vandalized in Kelowna's Rutland neighbourhood by rocks smashed into their windshields. (Nick Codutti)

Francis contacted Kelowna RCMPand found out from investigators another vehicle in the area had been vandalized in a similar way.

"The suspect or suspects tossed a patio stone through the windshield of an older modelbrown Ford Expedition." wrote Cpl Jesse O'Donaghey in an email.

"Witnesses, or anyone with video surveillance of the crimes, is asked to contact the Kelowna RCMP."

Francis believes her car was damaged duringa random spree of vandalismand not specifically targeted by the culprit or culprits.

The incident has soured her feelings around her move into her new home, however, and she hopes whoever dropped the rock on her car will come forward and take responsibility.

"Even if you are drunk or partying and looking for a good time, just try to find something else to do besides vandalizing someone's vehicle," she said.