Surprise!

A would-be thief was caught in a hilarious state of wide-eyed shock when he realized he was being filmed in a car in Oregon.

The car’s owner told KOIN 6 that she checked the notifications on her inward-facing dashcam after a neighbor in Beaverton told her that her car had been broken into.

Her shock was nothing compared to the would-be thief’s, it seems — with her footage showing him staring in dazzled disbelief when a flash went off on her motion-activated dashcam.

“It was the funniest face I have ever seen,” the woman, who asked not to be identified, told the station.

“I kept playing back the video because it was just so funny.”

She said her Owlcam starts recording without light, with the flash going on after 10 seconds, alerting the prowler to the camera.

“He was startled — him and his friends,” she told KOIN 6, with footage showing at least one more person running away outside, with nothing taken from the car after the break-in last Friday.

“I am totally happy about that camera — it’s worth every penny.”

Beaverton police told the station that police reports had been filed but no arrests made as of Tuesday.