Five more speed bumps on Grenada Boulevard Extended have been removed, leaving only four of the original 12 remaining, said county Road Manager Lennon Powell.
Three speed bumps were ripped up over the weekend, and spikes from one remained sticking up from the road Monday.
"They came back and finished 'em off last night," Powell said Tuesday. The county has removed all spikes that were left in the road, he said.
"Somebody's going to get a blowout or a wreck or something," Peggy Burden, who lives on the street and noticed the spikes, said Monday.
"It looks like they pried the things out of the street. Anyway it's a shame, because they just put them up," Burden said.
The speed bumps on Grenada Boulevard Extended had been out for almost a month, Powell said.
Spikes left in the road "could destroy a tire completely," he said. Powell does not know how vandals removed the speed bumps, he said.
"We plan on replacing them, but there may be another option that we're going to try," Powell said. "I don't know exactly what we're going to go to." The county may consider asphalt speed bumps in the future, he said.
The speed bumps are purchased in bulk and average about $5 each, he said.
In May, three out of 15 speed bumps in the Glendale subdivision were pried up the same week they were installed. Powell said they were replaced and have not been tampered with since then.
In March, the Board of Supervisors voted to place speed bumps on the following streets:
Powell said all the speed bumps for the county have been installed except for those planned for Hughes Trailer Park. The asphalt in the area is not thick enough to hold the traffic control devices, he said, so plans for speed bumps there have been canceled.
Burden, 67, a retired pharmacy technician, said many of the residents on Grenada Boulevard Extended are retirees like her and her husband, Henry, a former Greenwood assistant police chief.
The Burdens are in favor of speed bumps due to speeders who frequent the road.
"I think they believe it's a race track out here. I don't know," said Peggy Burden Monday. "It really slowed the traffic down around here. We were all for it."
"It's for the safety of the residents that live there and kids playing," Powell said.
