The Steve Jobs Ninja Star Story: Fact or Fiction?
Steve Jobs by day, iNinja by night?
A rather funny story about Steve Jobs hit the Internet last week, and caught the attention of mainstream media.
Bloomberg's account of the story is that Japanese magazine SPA! reported in its latest issue that, on a family vacation to Kyoto, Steve Jobs bought ninja throwing stars, known locally as shuriken, and attempted to bring them on his private jet.
Air safety officials supposedly disallowed Jobs from carrying the shuriken home with him, to which Jobs protested with the logic that it would not make sense for him to use these weapons to hijack his own plane. He then allegedly said that he would never visit Japan again.
Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said that the report was inaccurate.
“Steve did visit Japan this summer for a vacation in Kyoto, but the incidents described at the airport are pure fiction,” said Dowling. “Steve had a great time and hopes to visit Japan again soon.”
However, Bloomberg cites Takeshi Uno, a spokesman at Kansai airport, as confirming that a passenger using a private jet was stopped at the end of July for carrying ninja throwing stars along with other handheld blades. Even though the passenger was flying on a private jet, the airport's regulations don't have separate rules for the different aircraft. Also a part of airport regulations is privacy, which means that this passenger could not be publically identified.
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Airport officials: You're boarding it wrong!
Bahahahahaha
He was holding it wrong.
Airport officials: You're boarding it wrong!
But can he play Crysis?
Time to let it die now, people...
Wow, you guys are so funny with all the "holding it wrong" comments.
You should all try out for Last Comic Standing - you'll go far I'm sure.
cool story, bro
YAY I KILLED A MEME TOO!
Steve Jobs is a Narutard. Fact.
Guess Steve needs to make an iPort for his plane.
Steve, drunk much?
and with his black turtle neck, he becomes a true ninja turtle..
I think we can safely assume that this Steve Dowling guy is lying through his teeth like a good spokesman.
Not really an Apple fanboy (holding it wrong gags still crack me up) but I agree with Steve on this one. He's unlikely to try to use shuriken to hijack a plane he just rented. What's he going to do, order the pilot to fly to some destination he wants to go to? If all he wanted to do was crash the plane then he'd just have to turn on his mobile, the FAA reckon they're too dangerous to use.
WTF. Other news sites ran this "story" 5 days ago. Why blows my mind is why anyone cares what this idiot does in the first place.
This guy is just a complete idiot ....
Please Toms, if there is no news, do not report on rumors.
Not really an Apple fanboy (holding it wrong gags still crack me up) but I agree with Steve on this one. He's unlikely to try to use shuriken to hijack a plane he just rented. What's he going to do, order the pilot to fly to some destination he wants to go to? If all he wanted to do was crash the plane then he'd just have to turn on his mobile, the FAA reckon they're too dangerous to use.
The thing is, it's not about fear of him trying to hijack his own plane or anything like that. It's that it is about legalities. The law is the freaking law. Just because it's your own private jet, doesn't mean you can smuggle weapons on board (or drugs,immigrants,etc). What this just means is that Steve Jobs is NOT above the law, despite what he and others may think.
Guess that makes Steve Jobs... *sunglasses*... a star.
It's not illegal to put this stuff in your luggage that goes in the cargo section, why wouldn't he just do that? You don't need to carry a freaking ninja star in your carry-on bag. Since it was his own private jet I'm sure he could have held it up long enough to put that crap in the cargo section.
Anyway, I do agree that the law should be applied to you even if it is your own private jet. Who is to say a terrorist couldn't bring those aboard his own private jet, hijack it and crash it into a building?
It's not illegal to put this stuff in your luggage that goes in the cargo section, why wouldn't he just do that? You don't need to carry a freaking ninja star in your carry-on bag. Since it was his own private jet I'm sure he could have held it up long enough to put that crap in the cargo section.Anyway, I do agree that the law should be applied to you even if it is your own private jet. Who is to say a terrorist couldn't bring those aboard his own private jet, hijack it and crash it into a building?
well, he could just fly it to iran where there are no safety laws and get the weapons there....
well, he could just fly it to iran where there are no safety laws and get the weapons there....
or just fly the **** plane himself, its his...
@soulfringe "The law is the freaking law"
yeah like the law against spiting on sidewalks or parking your donkey on the road , some laws are retarded and common sense should prevail . reminds me of zero tolerance and 2nd graders getting suspended from school for a toy army man or a aspirin or some other stupid reason.
This guy is just a complete idiot ....
Because someone wrote an obviously fake story about him? Yes... such an idiot. And even if it is somehow true that he wasn't allowed to bring ninja stars on his OWN private jet, then I'd have to side with him and whoever wouldn't let him board is an idiot. Case closed.
Yes... such an idiot.
Fixed & Agreed.
In the photo Steve is demonstrating his simultaneous overarm and under-leg star-throwing technique.
I don't really care one way or another, but I what I really do find funny is how the fanboys will come to Jobs' defense, regardless. It's not really about products or software any longer. It has become and identity, a religion, and a thought process. Basically, a cult. I'm sure if Jobs strangled and dismembered a child on live national TV they'd be claiming that the kid hadn't fully read his EULA, and therefore, had agreed to the dismemberment.
Nina Jobs is a ninja
If you think that's freaky, what about his fascination with WWII German tanks? Oh, right, it was just a bunch of cats! Or what about that bitten apple logo? Oh, right, that just nerd humor (bit/byte). Reminds me of Sardonic Sarkozy telling Obama that, "Yes, YOU can!" ;-)
and now Japan is rejoicing and throwing a big party.
Damn ninjas! lol
He could have just put those ninja stuff in the cargo.
Japan was worried Steve Jobs was working on the iNinja...
iJack my plane