Local TV Station Sues 'Fitness Expert' Duo for Pranking Morning News Program

Two practical jokers who have posed as fitness experts are being sued by a local news station in Wisconsin. Although they called themselves "Chop and Steele," they were really pranksters Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher. They've been fooling TV stations for years. When they appeared on local news in Eau Claire, Wis., in November, they smashed racquets and beat a tire with baseball bats. The station's owner has filed a lawsuit claiming they fraudulently duped WEAU into booking their appearance. #InsideEdition

[lucask]

This is absolutely hilarious. These guys should be getting paid and praised instead of sued.

[loserlonerlexi]

Thats the News stations faults for not doing their research properly on who they have on their shows. The station is just mad that they look incompetent!!

[kellystar]

Ummm how did they fool anyone? They made crazy workout videos and made people laugh!! They didn't make fools of themselves they made fools of them!!!

[stefanr]

The yo-yo guy isn't them. It's the guy who played Nate in The Office

[sandiv]

hey they making exercise look fun give me bat to relieve my stress on a tire lmfao

[TimBurVlogs]

WI TV reporters really do have no soul!

[billb]

It's the actual job of the NEWS to research things!!!! Amazing

[ffmrnde]

lmao the reporter be dissin the experts bc hes sitting in the back with rolls and rolls

[nametaken]

The news station should be sued for having idiots as employees.

[Ash-fdww]

Pull a Pepsi fighter jet twist on em, you'll be golden.

[zm]

But, you can't expect the news to do some investigating, right?

[joshjones]

how even did these shows NOT tell oml ah yes my daily hitting of the rackets and tire

[RT-upfn]

I bet Arron Hernandez will be their next "special guest" with a knot tying segment. 🤣🤣🤣

[chrisis]

Even the news station reporting this has no sense of humor

[Snakebite]

The fraud charge should be impossible to prove. The copyright claim sounds legitimate. They have no right to the footage unless some prior document was signed saying they could.

[phoebethegreat]

So typical of America. They wouldn't be getting sued in the UK.

[devendrasharma]

I bet the ratings went up during this segement too and they want to sue these two guys.

[PrivateAckbar]

These guys run the found footage festival. Everyone should look it up.

[spyromatt]

Not their fault if the TV manager is dumb

[corriesmith]

they suing cuz they fell for it? 😂😂😂😂lmao!