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Professor goes from peace ride to jail stay:

A professor's plans to bicycle 1,300 miles to promote world peace derailed in North Charleston [South Carolina] on Friday after, authorities say, he tried to get a driver's license with a bogus Social Security card.

Luis Rodriguez, a 52-year-old English professor from Cuernavaca, Mexico, said he was only a week into his planned ride from Miami to New York when he became scared of sharing the roads with Charleston's aggressive drivers.

Rodriguez said he decided to get a South Carolina driver's license so he could rent a car and haul his Trek bicycle to a safer environment. The problem was, he tried to use a phony document to accomplish his goal, authorities said.

A State Law Enforcement Division arrested Rodriguez on Friday morning after he presented the Social Security card to workers at the Division of Motor Vehicles on Leeds Avenue. Still dressed in lightweight cycling clothes, he landed across the street at the Charleston County jail.

Glad to hear Luis doesn't teach logic. But how did he come to have a bogus Social Security card?

Rodriguez said a stranger handed him the phony Social Security card in 1996 after he made another long-distance ride to visit the Olympics in Atlanta. The man suggested he might need the card if he wanted to get work in the United States. Rodriguez said he had never used the card before Friday.

Maybe he teaches English literature? Actually, in most states it would have worked fine.

Rodriguez said he flew into Miami about a week ago and planned to cycle along the Eastern Seaboard. Along the way, he hoped to draw attention to the need for world peace and attract sponsors who might back his efforts to make a future cross-country journey, he said.

"I am a promoter of peace and love and freedom," he said. "I believe strongly in peace and try to promote that through this sport."
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"I don't want to be here," he said. "I just want to go back to Mexico."

OK.