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Don't try this at home -- or elsewhere!

By ANTHONY HALL, United Press International
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When it comes to stripping down naked, the rule of thumb is doing it at home is OK, but don't try it elsewhere.

Several folks got that formula wrong this week, choosing to bare all or just a few parts of their bodies outside of their abodes.

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Guaranteed to get the neighbors talking, a woman in Naples, Fla., Rachelle Gomes, 39, allegedly exposed her breasts at an apartment complex swimming pool, although she told police later her bikini top had fallen off accidentally, The Naples Daily News reported.

Not too far away, in Bonita Springs, Fla., a couple were spotted trespassing and, incidentally naked, until, that is, police officers arrived.

By then Andrew Taylor and Delana Layman were putting on some attire, the Daily News reported. As such, they were charged with trespassing and, incidentally, Layman was charged with possession of prescription drugs that did not belong to her, the newspaper said.

The whole relationship thing can raise so many questions and be so confusing.

A man from Syracuse, N.Y., for example, Ned Nefer, took a 70-mile trip on foot this week with a mannequin he calls his wife.

He met his so-called spouse (named Teagan) at the Children's Home of Jefferson County, when she was just a head, and later built a body for her, the Watertown Daily Times reported.

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He also said he "married" Teagan in California in 1986, meaning some people can make it work with a silent partner.

The trip from Syracuse to Watertown was a pilgrimage to the town where Nefer first met the mannequin head, the newspaper said.

Lisa Spear, principal social welfare examiner for the Jefferson County Department of Social Services, said Nefer "seemed sincere," and may have been once married to a woman who died. "I'm not sure if this is his way of dealing with the death or that this is some way of coping," Spear said.

In another dress for the occasion story, Tracy Chandler in Doncaster, England, found herself fired by a local soccer team after poising for a charity calendar wearing lingerie.

Chandler said it was bad enough being fired "by e-mail," but that the town's soccer team, the Rovers, might be a bit hypocritical, the Daily Mirror reported.

The soccer team, she said, posed for a different charity calendar the year before, wearing nothing but strategically placed soccer balls.

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