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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Authorities were given a bizarre description of an alleged robber in Manchester on Sunday.

Investigators with the Manchester Police Department said the intruder was naked from the waist down.

"He had no pants on. He had a T-shirt, no pants, no boxers, nothing, so I yelled for Derek," resident Lindsay Bolton said.

It was an unwelcome wake-up call for Bolton and her boyfriend, Derek McNutt.

Bolton had just fed her 5-month-old baby boy and put him back to bed when she came face-to-face with a man who appeared to be very drunk in her living room.

"He acted like he was going to leave and then chased him this way," Bolton said. "Derek and I (went) this way, and he had the bat."

And not just a baseball bat. McNutt said he struggled with the suspect, who grabbed anything he could get his hands on.

"He threw vice grips at me. I threw them right back at him," McNutt said.

McNutt even grabbed his baby's high chair to defend himself.

"I just threw it right at him, and it hit him, and it broke," McNutt said.

At one point, the couple raced down the back stairs to grab a baseball bat from their truck, but the door locked behind them. They tried to get in the front door, but it was locked, so they were frantic to get back inside, where their 3-year-old daughter and baby were sleeping.

"I needed to get that door open to get back in there whether I got hit by a bat or not," Bolton said.

They got back inside, and a neighbor rushed to their apartment to help.

McNutt said he finally threw a shovel at the intruder, who then grabbed a pair of McNutt's sweatpants and left the building. Police arrested Joshua O'Shea, 31, of Epsom, on the street moments later.

"He was very vague in his assessment of what was going on," Manchester Police Department Detective Robert Keating said.

Police said O'Shea told them he went to the apartment to meet his girlfriend.

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TROY, N.Y. (AP) - New York police say a college employee inadvertently photographed himself planting a motion-activated camera in a women's locker room at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

They tell local media that 56-year-old Thomas McMartin, of Hoosick Falls, was arrested Friday and pleaded not guilty to felony charges of unlawful surveillance and burglary. McMartin declined to comment.

The college says he was fired from his job as a heating and cooling supervisor and barred from the upstate New York campus soon after the camera was found.

Troy police Capt. John Cooney says the camera was installed March 8. It captured still images of several women changing before one of them noticed something wrong with the ceiling.

He says there's no evidence of any earlier spying or other cameras, but the investigation is continuing.

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  You knew I could see this happening.  The way they build some of the new house divisions, all the house look the same. 

  I knew it was going to happen, just last week my wife and I passed one of the additions and I said the same thing.