'A gross overreach': Coquitlam, B.C., man explains why he's suing RCMP who surprised him naked in his home

A Coquitlam, B.C., man had just stepped out of the shower and opened the door to his ensuite bathroom while naked when he was startled to find a Mountie standing in the bedroom.

A Coquitlam, B.C., man had just stepped out of the shower and opened the door to his ensuite bathroom while naked when he was startled to find a Mountie standing in the bedroom.

"When I open the bathroom door, bang, right there, I'm face to face with an intruder in my house,” said Kirk Forbes. "A little bit of panic set in. Fortunately, I did see the uniform."

He said the strange encounter happened in June of last year.

According to Forbes, the officer and her partner were there to serve him with a traffic ticket for allegedly passing a stopped school bus in Pemberton seven months earlier.

He said the officers told him that when they knocked on the front door it swung open – but he doesn’t think that gives them the right to enter his home.

“There’s such a gross overreach – an abuse of power – that I believe happened with them coming into my home,” Forbes said. “And I think Canadians need to be aware that this has happened and it is happening. It’s an erosion of not just my rights but everybody’s rights.”

Forbes said he later went to file a complaint at the RCMP’s Coquitlam detachment and he alleges the receptionist referred to him as "the shower guy," which leads him to believe he has become the butt of RCMP jokes.