Icelandic teenage caller tricks White House

POSTED BY: citizen
UPDATED: Friday, December 14, 2007 18:16
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CITIZEN

Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:21 PM

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A teenager says he convinced the White House he was Iceland's president and managed to schedule a call with George W. Bush but was found out before he got to talk to the U.S. president.

"My call was transferred around a few times until I got hold of Bush's secretary and managed to book a call meeting with Bush the following Monday evening," Vifill Atlason, 16, told Reuters.

The teenager posed as Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson when he made the call on Dec 1.

Icelandic police turned up at his door two days later -- the day of the planned call -- and took him in for questioning.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUKL1237489520071212?pageNumber
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FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:48 PM

Bah, that's not as good as something one of my old associates had pulled.

He found in an old texbook, the AOL screen name and Email address for the office of the president, at the time, Clinton... and then found out they had let it lapse, so he re-created it.

He eventually did get caught, reamed and put on probation after a nasty lecture from the SS goonsquad, who offered many a threat, given that he had begun to post logs of his instant message conversations... which got to be hi-larious when the Lewinsky question would come up.

Said logs were all purged and confiscated, of course....

But it was damn funny, and they'd no one to blame but themselves.

Amazing how much of our money and freedoms get poured into "national security" and we still end up with a laughable product, eh ?

-Frem
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CANTTAKESKY

Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:01 PM

Hehe. Both stories are funny.

Stupid bastards.

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MISSTRESSAHARA

Friday, December 14, 2007 4:49 AM

Wow, he did a Bart Simpson.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, December 14, 2007 4:53 AM

Haha... those tricky Icelandic bastards....

Yanno, Iceland is really green? lol

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AURAPTOR

Friday, December 14, 2007 5:43 AM

At least we didn't have some Canadian teenager fly his Cessna and land on the Washington Mall. Anyone remember the German kid who flew his single engine plane across country, some 500 miles, and landed in Moscow's Red Square, completely unchallenged by the Soviet Air Defenses ?

Pretty funny stuff.

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CITIZEN

Friday, December 14, 2007 9:13 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yanno, Iceland is really green? lol

Even funnier when you realise that Greenland is covered with Glaciers.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
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SICKDUDE

Friday, December 14, 2007 6:16 PM

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Originally posted by citizen:
Even funnier when you realise that Greenland is covered with Glaciers.

We'll just have to see about that!

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