Naked Canadian man mocked as 'shower guy' after walking out of bathroom to find female Mountie in bedroom: suit

A Canadian man is suing the country’s police department over claims he 
walked naked out of his shower to find a female uniformed Mountie standing 
in his bedroom — and was later mocked by officers as “the shower guy.”

Kirk Forbes filed a notice of civil claim in July, a year after the 
surprise visit, accusing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer of 
abusing her authority and for not identifying herself as a police officer 
until Forbes demanded to know who was inside his home.

“When I open the bathroom door, bang, right there, I’m face to face with 
an intruder in my house,” Forbes told CTV News.

“A little bit of panic set in.”

The incident unfolded in June 2022 inside Forbes’ home in Coquitlam, a 
city in British Columbia just 25 miles north of the Washington border.

After getting dressed, Forbes walked into his living room to find a male 
cop rifling through his property, he claims.

The pair told him the door swung open when they knocked and allegedly 
joked about entering the home without consent or a search warrant.

Additionally, Forbes claims the disturbance was disproportionate to the 
reason he was being sought — to be served a ticket violation for not 
stopping for a school bus, which he claims he didn’t know he committed.

“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.”

The Mounties confirmed Tuesday that two of their officers entered the home 
after noticing that it appeared to be “an insecure premise.”

The RCMP acknowledged that the homeowner raised concerns about the entry, 
but said it “believed” the issues were resolved informally.

Forbes, however, said he only grew increasingly upset with the Mounties in 
the months following the incident.

He made an informal complaint about the situation the morning it occurred 
and was told the department would investigate and report back to him, he 
claims.

After three weeks passed without any update, Forbes visited the local 
detachment, where a receptionist allegedly referred to him as “the shower 
guy.”

Forbes was shocked that his vulnerable moment had become fodder for the 
department, which only caused further anxiety and embarrassment, prompting 
him to file the formal complaint in May.

He has also filed a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages against the two 
officers, the attorney general of Canada and the British Columbia minister 
of public safety.

“It was pretty concerning, not to mention embarrassing, to know that this 
situation has become water-jug banter at the RCMP hall,” he said.

“If I get pulled over, or see some RCMP in the community, now do I have to 
look at them and have them know that I’m that guy?”

The RCMP said it was investigating the incident, but that the officers may 
have had a plausible reason to enter without an invitation.

“There’s case law that if there’s an insecure premise that police have a 
duty to make sure that nobody’s injured inside, and the only way you can 
do that is to enter,” RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Alexa Hodgins told CBC News.

Hodgins said examples include “a window being smashed, or a door opening 
or maybe the door’s already open — those types of things.”

The RCMP has not yet filed a statement of defense in the lawsuit.

Forbes said he is disputing the ticket violation that officers entered his 
home to give him that day.

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