After a bad hit on Friday, September 19, Ted spent three days cleaning up the mess created by visitors to the town.

“If it was local kids they would have rung and told me,” Ted said.

“The youth would be devastated that people have done this to their town.”

Eleven power poles, fences, buildings and a church were among a few of the places hit by the vandals.

And in another bad hit over the weekend four toilet blocks and five businesses were hit.

Ted said he doesn’t like to leave the graffiti on longer than 24 hours. It’s harder to remove and if the offenders come back they gain satisfaction from their work.

But he can’t remove it without your help.

While Ted is concerned about the amount of graffiti recently, his main problem is residents are not letting him know where it is.

“If you drove along Macintosh St (on Saturday morning) you couldn’t miss it, but nobody bothered to tell me,” Ted said.

“We have defeated it here but residents are getting lax in reporting it.”

Normally there is not a problem around the twin towns but with the holiday period now in full swing Ted said his workload will increase by 75 per cent.

The graffiti buster starts work each morning at 5am with a drive around the towns to see what has been done the night before.

But he said he can’t cover everywhere each day.

If you see graffiti in Forster Tuncurry, phone Ted on the graffiti buster hotline 0400 440 309.

Great Lakes Council offers a $1000 reward for information leading to the apprehension of vandals.