A resident of Marlow St in Musselburgh said the tagging rampage happened between 1am and 3am on Sunday.
"At half-past 10 I went outside to go out on Sunday and noticed the spray paint on the back of my car."
All up, the resident counted 14 cars tagged, 13 on Marlow St and one more on Tainui Rd, as well as her neighbour’s fence.
The community banded together to come up with a solution for removing the paint.
"As a community we all pitched in. One lot found a solution and used petrol to get the paint off. We then went around and helped each other get the paint off everyone’s cars so we could go out and continue to live our everyday lives."
The tagger spray-painted resident’s number plates, car windows and headlights, as well as sides of vehicles.
Strangely, the spray painter avoided painting any Subarus parked on the street.
Camera footage showed the man scoped out the street at 9.30pm, when he took pictures of security cameras and looked at the vehicles.
The resident said she contacted police and let them know how many cars had been tagged, but was told everyone needed to make their own reports.
"They said they would send the forensic team when everyone made their reports, but forensics wouldn’t be able to do anything to get fingerprints because it was spray paint.
"Police did not come out and talk to us. It’s quite disheartening that 14 cars tagged in a short space of time on one street didn’t get a response. It makes me feel like we aren’t important."
The resident was worried with police inaction and the perpetrator knowing where the cameras were that something similar could happen again.
"The impact from it has caused a lot of us residents a bit of fear.
"There are a lot more that were wanting to get security cameras but it is awesome we were able to come together and all helped each other — but it has definitely left us on alert."
A police spokesman said there were only two reports of tagging for Marlow St on Sunday morning, one for a fence and another one for a spray-painted car.
