16-year-old Vífill Atlason doesn't remember where he got the private phone number for the leader of the free world, but he had it for a few years before he made the call in 2007 to ask for a private meeting. A White House spokesperson insisted that he actually dialed the main switchboard for the West Wing, but – hold on to your hats – that turned out to be a big fat lie. Claiming to be real Icelandic President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Vífill was passed through several levels of security, each quizzing him about his identity (questions he easily answered by consulting Wikipedia).

In the end, Bush's secretary told Vífill to expect a call from the President soon. Instead, the police showed up at his home, hauled him back to the station, and interrogated him for several hours under orders to find the source of "the leak." In a country none too enamored by George W., Vífill Atlason became a local hero.

So what did the teenager plan to say if he ever got Bush on the phone? "I just wanted to talk to him, have a chat, invite him to Iceland and see what he'd say," he said. Sounds like a pretty good strategy.