“Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said he’ll never come back to Japan after officials at an airport barred him from taking Ninja throwing stars aboard his private plane, SPA! magazine reported in its latest issue,” Adam Le and Jason Clenfield report for Bloomberg.
“A security scan at Kansai International Airport, near Osaka, detected the weapons inside the executive’s carry-on luggage in July as he was returning home to the U.S. from a family vacation in Kyoto, the Japanese magazine reported, citing unidentified officials at the airport and the transportation ministry,” Le and Clenfield report.
“Jobs said it wouldn’t make sense for a person to try to hijack his own plane, according to the report,” Le and Clenfield report. “He then told officials he would never visit Japan again, the magazine reported.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: By the way Apple released products, we’ve always suspected that Jobs was very practiced in the ways of ninjutsu, but we always thought he was more into Shinobi-iri, Hensōjutsu, and Intonjutsu than Shurikenjutsu. For that reason, we would have taken him for more of a Kunai man than for Shuriken, which casts significant doubt in our minds about the validity of this report.
Japanse robot mentality strikes again.
I knew Steve was a ninja!
This sounds like an Onion article…
Steve’s kung fu is good
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This story is so cool!
I thought one of the key advantages of private planes was you didn’t have to deal with all that crappy airport security?
Maybe it was payback for all the japanese iPod nano batteries that burst into flames.
Cheap Steve Jobs trying to deny a living wage to some Japanese shipping clerk by transporting illegal materials aboard his private jet rather than contracting for “FedEx” to do the shipping FOR him. What a tight-wad!
Sorry. Someone had to defend our long-time eastern allies.
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I thought the whole point of having your own private jet was to have the freedom to carry on anything you want. 15 gallons of shampoo & Ninja Stars!!!!!!
He also can’t visit Korea or Finland.
They will definitely “find” something in his luggage at the border.
Gotta watch the cops in Schaumburg, Illinois too.
Is that a busted tail light on your private jet? Can’t be flyin’ round here like that. No sir.
so THAT’S how he does it!
Try taking a bag of rice into Japan..
I’m with Steve.
I like dolphins. Watch the Cove.
you have to wonder like the other billionaires, y’know bruce wayne and Tony Stark, what Steve does in his does in his spare time….
Maybe those are ninja turtlenecks he wears.
Allies my ass.
I know that Bloomberg hates Steve Jobs’ guts, but come on. They cook up this bullshit? They must be really desperate.
The next Keynote is gonna be fun. No more turtlenecks…from now on it’s ninja suits…hi-yah! iPod Star!
Will this hurt iPad sales in Japan now that it has been banned from Steve.
The story fails to mention that Steve got the souvenirs while visiting a TV studio that was taping the Japanese version of Dancing With the Stars. They have a different approach to entertainment.
I brought ninja throwing spikes from Hawaii to California once.
I didn’t keep them in my carry-on luggage though!
Steve should have pulled out his Cloak of Invisibility packed next to the stars, and escaped.
Hindsight is always 20/20.
When in Rome…
this can’t be real. I’ll pull the iPads right out of there too. eff ’em
The airport doesn’t have separate boarding arrangements for private- jet users.
This is the days we live in. A sharp piece of metal (much like the fine dining silverware on Apple’s jet) is rejected. But, you can ship it BY AIR using the mail, UPS, FedEX, … The idiots should have said that either the pilot take it on board or we will ship it for you. Maybe a US Marshal or one of the diplomats can transport it for you.
IT IS HIS OWN PLANE. (PS. If Steve is vacationing on the corporate jet, I assume he covers the expense unless he is also on the job there.)