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E-mail gags bring trouble for 'redneck'

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FORT MYERS, Fla., June 12 (UPI) -- A South Florida school district employee who considers himself a redneck has been reprimanded for circulating e-mails depicting redneck lifestyles.

Lee County School District Superintendent James Browder told Jack Shelton, the district's transportation director, he could face further discipline and even termination if he uses school computers to circulate non-business e-mails, the Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press reported.

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Among the images the 59-year-old Shelton shared with coworkers was one entitled "Redneck bass boat," which was a lawn chair strapped to Styrofoam boards. Another was "A redneck game of horseshoes," featuring two men tossing toilet seats, the report said.

While Shelton has e-mailed a reminder to everyone who received the stereotypical images that school e-mails are for business only, he told the newspaper he wouldn't be angry if someone called him a redneck.

"I consider myself one," Shelton said. "I was born and raised in the mountains of North Carolina."

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