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'Fox and Friends' falls for ruse alleging purchase of $1 billion of jetpacks for LAPD, Fire Department

It's a story that, by all accounts, shouldn't have flown.

Anchors at the Fox News national morning news show "Fox and Friends" reported Tuesday that the city of Los Angeles had ordered 10,000 jetpacks for its police and fire departments. The

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[devil_ad_vocate]

Steve Doocy is the goofiest dude on tv. What a dork.

[ubiquitous_a]

I would SO love to see Shep mock them mercilessly about this.

[mercystars]

Ah, Brian Kilmeade: aka, the one who's NOT Steve Doocy.

[rex_dart]

Quick, someone tip them off that the Miami PD is buying a thousand of these to help them stop all them aliens from gettin in by boat and takin our jorbs:

[fauxparadiso]

I would rather they buy 10,000 of these:

[simply_blah]

OMG! GIMME!

[beoweasel]

OH GOD, THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF WHAT JAY SMOOTH SAID WAS GOING TO HAPPEN! D:
OUR ROBOT REPLACEMENTS HAVE COME!

[everythingonit]

I love it. I love it. These idiots.

Omg, please hire Rick Sanchez, please. HE WILL FIT IN SO WELL.

[morbidoutlook]

Do we even have jet packs? Like as a society, are they even real?

[brewsternorth]

They don't work terribly well, but we've had a kind of functioning jetpack since the 60s.

[morbidoutlook]

:D, That's so cool!

[deepbluemermaid]

A New Zealand company has developed a functioning jetpack - they announced it some time last year and held a televised test flight. They've had a lot of interest from the US military, as you might expect. More info here:

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/new-zealands-martin-aircraft-company-to-start-selling-jetpacks-2010038/