Thousands of dollars of damage was caused after two businesses were ram-raided early Wednesday morning.
The window frame and metal bars were pushed into the front of Keilor Village Convenience Store during the raid about 4am.
Several hours earlier, the rear roller door of a tool business in Keilor Park was also rammed.
It’s the ninth time in four years the Makita service centre in Thomsons Road has been hit by vandals.
A service technician, who only wanted to be known as Dom, said a value of stolen goods would not be known until stock had been checked.
“But the damage to the roller door will be a massive bill,” he said.
He said tools were no longer kept on site after thousands of dollars of equipment was stolen in an Anzac Day raid.
“I get really upset about it,” Dom said.
“We used to have lots of them [tools] here for the sales staff but we’ve had to remove them. Unfortunately we’re just a service centre now.”
Cartons of cigarettes were stolen from the Keilor Village convenience store in the raid.
The business owner’s son, who did not want to be named, says the family wants Brimbank council to install concrete bollards along the Old Calder Highway shopping strip as a deterrent to other would-be offenders.
