BillCosby

Good to see some of the cia agents are out solving problems while the others are buZy hiding evidence & waterboarding ppl.....

Iceland Teen Prank Calls White House
12-Dec-2007
Written by: Susie Kopecky

A teenager in Iceland called the White House pretending to be the president of Iceland.

Prank phone calling just reached a new level. Reuters reports that a 16-year old teenager in Iceland obtained a line to the White House. He pretended to be the President of Iceland, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, and even managed to book a phone call with President Bush for the Monday after the call. The conversation with Bush's secretary took place on December 1st. Soon after the boy was found out, Reuters reports that the CIA contacted Icelandic officials, who soon sent over their country's police to interview the boy. The boy, identified as Vifill Atlason, stated "They told me the CIA had called the National Commissioner of the Icelandic police and asked if the police could try and find out where I received that phone number from."



A 16-year-old Icelandic prankster, Vífill Atlason, called the Presidential Office of the White House the first weekend in December and requested a telephone meeting with George W. Bush as Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland.

After having answered a number of questions about Grímsson’s persona with the aid of Wikipedia, and being sent from operator to operator, Atlason was given contact with Bush’s private secretary and granted a telephone meeting with the president at 7 pm on December 3, Fréttabladid reports.

But at the last minute, White House officials noticed there was something fishy about the caller, and Atlason was paid a visit by the police in Akranes, where he lives, instead. US authorities were keen to find out how an Icelandic teenager could have known the secret telephone number of the White House Presidential Office.

Atlason claims not to remember where he got his hands on the telephone number. The teenage prankster does not expect to get into any legal trouble for his “light telephone prank.”

“I wasn’t rude and was addressed as ‘Mr. President’ by the White House staff over and over again. It was totally worth all the fuss,” Atlason said. He told Morgunbladid he did not want to get anyone upset, he just wanted to have a chat with Bush and invite him to Iceland.

Two Icelandic TV channels, RÚV and Channel 2, invited Atlason to an interview Thursday last week to ask him about his prank. He agreed to go to both interviews, which were at the same time, and it wasn’t until later that people realized that two different boys had been interviewed as Atlason.

Apparently, the true prankster had showed up at RÚV, but had sent one of his friends to impersonate him on Channel 2.

Atlason’s prank has also caught the attention of American media stations like NBC and ABC, the latter of which interviewed the teenager and his mother, Fréttabladid reports.

A White House representative told ABC that it is not particularly difficult to find the number Atlason had called; it is an unclassified number on the White House switchboard.

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DanS.

lol....I suppose there probably isn't anything better to do in Iceland than call our pres.

Teri B.

That works?

Hmmmm . . . .

Heretic

I was thinking more along the lines of the kid saying that while he's not the president of Iceland, that the real president was just nextdoor and would get him on the line shortly.

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cheapseats

what a big unfunny joke is American National Security.

It bears reminding ourselves on a regular basis that WHILE...which is to say at the same time that...this Administration and this Congress do just about everything under the sun back-assward, they are also doing NOTHING to meaningfully prevent the possibility of a terrorist attack.

Any mall, any day of the week...that's the bottom line on THAT.

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Heretic

It's not like he could've delivered anthrax by phone.

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ThetaBurst

"I'd piss on a sparkplug if I thought it'd do any good!"

Kanadesaga

No, but he could have confused Bush if he used polysyllabic words.

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BillCosby

Come on!!!!!!!!!!!!! You should be proud of our intellidunce service.... They were all over this kid.............. I bet he is still grounded via executive order........... & I guess he knows what he will be getting for Christmas

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