Man walked naked out of shower, found Mountie in his bedroom, lawsuit says
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A British Columbia man who is suing the RCMP claims he walked naked out of his shower to find a female uniformed Mountie standing in his bedroom.
Kirk Forbes said the encounter in his Coquitlam home in June 2022 left him "shocked, confused and embarrassed.''
"I felt violated in my own home,'' he said in an interview Wednesday. "That's my safe place. It should always be that way.''
Mounties said in a news release issued Tuesday that the officers entered the home when they found that it appeared "insecure.''
In a notice of civil claim filed in July, Forbes said it was only after he asked the woman why she was in his home that she identified herself as an RCMP officer, then asked him his name and said she was there to serve him a traffic ticket.
Forbes was told the violation — not stopping for a school bus — happened in Pemberton, but he said in the claim he was unaware of any traffic violation.
"I was confused and, at that point, pretty much in a state of shock,'' he said. "This is all [because of] a six-month-old alleged traffic violation that I find myself in the situation, and I do find it just unreasonable, unprofessional and unwarranted.''
The lawsuit said that after he got dressed, he went to his living room, where he found a male officer searching his home.
He was told the officers had knocked on his door and "it had flung open'' so they went in, the claim said. The female officer then "joked mockingly that perhaps they should investigate whether a break-in had occurred.''
Forbes said he was unsatisfied with that explanation and with the officer's levity, which made him feel unsafe. He became "increasingly upset, angry and shocked,'' the claim said.
It said the Mounties served him the violation ticket and left the home.
In the lawsuit, Forbes alleged the RCMP officers "abused their authority and power'' by walking into his home without his permission or a warrant to serve the ticket.
He said the incident has left lasting impacts.
"It doesn't add up for me,'' Forbes said.
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