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Prank Caller Gets Dubya's Digits

Posted Dec 12, 07 2:40 PM CST in World,  US,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – As prank calls go, Vífill Atlason’s call to the White House is in select company. Posing as Iceland’s president, the 16-year-old says he managed to schedule a phone meeting with President Bush, though Icelandic police tracked him down before that could happen. White House spokesmen say Atlason called a public switchboard, but ABC News confirmed it was actually a high-level line.

Atlason swears he can’t remember how he got Bush's digits. He says he passed several checkpoints before reaching Bush’s secretary, "but I had Wikipedia open, so it was not so difficult.” Police, ordered to “find the leak,” questioned Atlason, but aren’t pressing charges. “He has become a bit of a hero in Iceland,” his mother says. “Bush is very unpopular here.”

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Iceland, from above.   (nasa.gov)
A Reykjavik teen impersonating the president of Iceland made it as far as scheduling a call at the White House, but was found out before reaching the U.S. President directly.   (Shutterstock.com)
"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," said the 16-year old who claimed...   ((c) David Paul Ohmer)
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