Sorry, but Andrew really is that good of a guy. The Exec who picked it up happened to be in our office when he did, so we asked him to snap some pictures (with the parties' permission) in case it turned out to be a story with a happy ending. Which it did.
I can safely assure you it is not fabricated. I was here in the office this morning when the call came in. We were all pretty surprised about the nature of the request.