WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — It's a story we're all too familiar with -- peeping Toms.
This time, police in Winston-Salem are looking for a man they said tried to take pictures of women in a thrift store dressing room. Little did he know, he was caught on camera himself.
Surveillance cameras caught the man walking around Mega Thrift off University Parkway in Winston-Salem last Tuesday.
The man can be seen carrying a baby in his arms. At one point it looks like he's shopping as he pushed a shopping cart around.
Police said a woman came forward and said she saw the man peeping under the dressing room.
He tied a camera to his shoes in an effort to take pictures of women in the dressing room, according to officers.
"With the size of this thing, it can be put anywhere at any time," said Skip Graham, a security and surveillance expert.
"They're more prevalent now than ever before. We've seen them grow from huge boxes for cameras, down to the size of a match-head," Graham added.
We've seen hidden cameras pop up in the most private of places around Charlotte -- from bathrooms and showers to dressing rooms and gyms.
Although the digital age has made it easier for creeps to hide cameras in the sneakiest of ways, Graham said there are ways to protect your privacy.
"If you wave this wand on the wall -- back and forth, up and down -- and you would get this signal," he said as he demonstrated a wand that beeped. "The same signal you would get here if the camera was embedded in the wall."
Back in Winston-Salem, police said there could likely be more victims that the peeping Tom targeted.
They are asking anyone who may have seen something suspicious at the store last Tuesday to call police.