When Rosemary Forseth took her car into the shop to deal with a flat tire last week, she was horrified to find her car was just one of many that had been vandalized while parked on McCallum Road in Abbotsford.

Employees at Curtis Tire told Forseth at least 10 other people had come into the shop with damaged tires deliberately punctured while they were parked along McCallum to attend the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre or the University of the Fraser Valley.

"I feel very frustrated. I couldn't go to work that day and there's the added expense of the tire," she said. "I'm worried other people will park there."

Forseth's tire was punctured when she and her husband attended the Heat hockey game at the AESC on the night of Jan. 24. The pair parked in the designated area on the shoulder of McCallum Road between King Road and Gillis Avenue.

When they were driving home the tire appeared fine, but Forseth woke up to a completely flat tire the next morning.

Curtis Tire manager Dave Zalot said the all the victims have the same two to three small puncture marks in the sidewalls of their tires. It wasn't until two customers came in at the same time on Jan. 9 that everybody was able to put two and two together.

One of the clients had two tires damaged within weeks of one another at the same spot, said Zalot.

"He thought something was wrong with the tires."

While the man was at the shop a second time on Jan. 9, his friend came in with the exact same problem.

"They'd been at the Heat game that weekend together and had both parked on McCallum," said Zalot.

As a result, Curtis Tire set up file with Abbotsford Police and a total of six customers have made reports within the last month.

"And there were at least another four to five customers before that with the same problem, but we hadn't narrowed it down to where it was happening," said Zalot.

He thinks more people have been affected because his can't be the only shop in town where people went to fix their tires.

Frustrated customers have to pay out between $150 to $200 to replace each tire.

"The one man had to pay $362 for two tires within a couple of weeks."

Abbotsford Police Const. Ian MacDonald said the acts of vandalism are not only costly, but also dangerous.

"It's pretty concerning. There's a driver safety issue here too," said MacDonald. "Pinhole-size punctures aren't immediately apparent, so drivers get in their cars and under emergency conditions they have to hit their brakes and that's when their tire goes."

The APD is taking the problem seriously, said MacDonald.

"We're alarmed and will deploy resources to find out who is responsible," he said.

Police think a resident of the area is responsible, not just some youth causing mischief.

"It's clear a person, or persons, is taking issue with parking along that stretch of road," said MacDonald.

Forseth said it's a low move for people to damage cars if they have a problem with parking.

"If someone has an issue with people parking near their property, they should address it with the city. We were in a designated area."