Is claiming that a mannequin is your wife strange?

Ned Nefer, 38, says he's married to a mannequin named Teagan, and the kooky couple is traveling 70 miles from Syracuse to Watertown on foot.

Or at least Nefer is walking. The Syracuse native is pushing his 6-foot wooden wife in a wheelchair across upstate New York.

"This is definitely one of the oddest things I've come across, but he seems very happy," said Lisa Spear, principal social welfare examiner for the Jefferson County Department of Social Services.

"I wouldn't classify him as dangerous at all," she told the newspaper after meeting with Nefer. "He seemed quite happy in his own little world."

Nefer's relationship is one that's built on trust - and lumber. He told the WDT that Teagan was only a head when they first met. But he built her a wooden body and claims they were married on Oct. 31, 1986, in California. Nefer was taking the mannequin to Watertown's Children's Home, where he first laid eyes on her noggin.

People are just so jaded and cynical these days. Here is a guy in love and everyone thinks he's crazy. He is taking his wife back to where the first met - what could be more romantic. Most husbands can't be bothered to get off the sofa to help their wife with the groceries. Mind you Teagan is likely the perfect wife - she never talks back.
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