Fox & Friends Falls For Fake LAPD Jetpack Story

Yesterday morning, Fox & Friends reported the LAPD had ordered 10,000 new jetpacks at a cost of $100,000 each. Outrageous!

Except it’s not true.

Gawker was the first to report on the story. ‘Jetpacks for the LAPD’ was the journalism of the Weekly World News. Maybe the fact that Los Angeles would be spending a billion dollars on jetpacks should have tipped off a producer or host.

Anyway, it didn’t, and the story got reported. “You gotta make up some rules,” said co-host Brian Kilmeade. “Because you’re going to have jetpacks flying into choppers!” Kilmeade really wanted to fly the jetpack.

But about 40 minutes later, co-host Steve Doocy came on with the disappointing news. “Earlier we were talking about jetpacks where you can fly around, and it looked like the LAPD was going to buy a whole bunch,” said Doocy. “Turns out they’re not going to. Which means Brian, more for you.” That’s right, the jetpacks do exist – FoxNews.com reported on it back in March.

Here’s the clip of the segment and correction, from Fox News:

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