I'll give you another example of the press adding two and two and making 137.66:
I was a TA soldier, during/after the Brixton riots in the early 80s. A couple of years later my regiment sent a composite squadron on a regular exchange/cross-training fortnight in the US with a US National Guard unit.
Now we know that USNG units have a civil powers support role, and we also know that they have been deployed (famously at Kent University) to quell riots. A journo on the Grauniad somehow got to hear about us going to the US, and decided, without reference to MoD, that we'd been trained to support the police/Home Office in riots, and wrote an article proclaiming this.
Total bolleaux - we'd not even mentioned the subject when in the US, and had done two weeks hard but fun long range recce training in the heat and humidity of the Florida pan-handle.