VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – A woman in East Vancouver is worried about a peeping tom in her neighbourhood just off of Commercial Drive.

It happened early Saturday morning after Carly Tennant had gone to sleep. The light tapping at her window woke her up at around 3:30 am.

“The tapping started happening. It was really light. It was almost taunting and it was creepy,” she explains.

It was then she called out to the person outside. “No one answered, so I went back to bed. It happened again. The third time it happened, I saw his shoulder. I couldn’t even see his face. It was his shoulder and a little bit of his hair and I just freaked out. I grabbed my computer and turned off all of my lights and sat somewhere where no one could see me.”

The most frightening part is what happened after she called the police. “And they went around and all the gates were open and the man had unscrewed the lightbulbs in my sensor lights outside my front door.”

Constable Brian Montague with the VPD says they are aware of the situation and calls this a criminal offence. “[This is] probably a little more common than people might think. This is why we try to explain to people or tell people to close their windows, close their blinds at night so individuals can’t see into your home.”

Montague adds you should call police right away if something like this happens or you see someone suspicious on your property. “It generally doesn’t escalate, but it’s always a concern that it might. So we always want to try and identify these individuals and figure out what their motivation is.”

It happened near Lakewood and 6th Avenue.