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14 Sep 2010, 12:13 pm

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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.

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.

Jobs said it wouldn’t make sense for a person to try to hijack his own plane, according to the report. He then told officials he would never visit Japan again, the magazine reported. Apple declined to comment.

Takeshi Uno, a spokesman at Kansai airport, said a passenger using a private jet was stopped at the end of July for carrying shuriken, the Japanese word for Ninja throwing stars. The passenger, whom Uno declined to identify because of the airport’s privacy policy, threw away the blades, he said. The airport doesn’t have separate boarding arrangements for private- jet users, Uno said.


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That story made me laugh, you just can't make this stuff up :lol:



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14 Sep 2010, 12:24 pm

HAAHAHAHA! Hijacking your own plane. Priceless.


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14 Sep 2010, 12:25 pm

Yeesh. They treated him like a normal person so he threw a big sulk. Very mature. :roll:



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14 Sep 2010, 12:53 pm

If he had flown into California with them it would have been a felony.


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14 Sep 2010, 1:01 pm

HAHAHAHAH Japan is too good for steve jobs. So funny that he feels soo butthurt because of it all.


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14 Sep 2010, 1:25 pm

Darn!! ! there goes my lifelong dream of ever owning ninja throwing stars!! If Jobs cant do it....there is no hope left for me. ....goes and whittles one out of wood.


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14 Sep 2010, 1:28 pm

jojobean wrote:
Darn!! ! there goes my lifelong dream of ever owning ninja throwing stars!! If Jobs cant do it....there is no hope left for me. ....goes and whittles one out of wood.


you cant just bring them onto passenger planes/private jets. Ive already ordered swords and they were flown over. Its just that they can only be transferred via ship, ground based vehicle, OR CARGO PLANES.


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14 Sep 2010, 1:32 pm

DemonAbyss10 wrote:
jojobean wrote:
Darn!! ! there goes my lifelong dream of ever owning ninja throwing stars!! If Jobs cant do it....there is no hope left for me. ....goes and whittles one out of wood.


you cant just bring them onto passenger planes/private jets. Ive already ordered swords and they were flown over. Its just that they can only be transferred via ship, ground based vehicle, OR CARGO PLANES.


...or in checked baggage!

Not an option for a private aircraft from a commercial aviation terminal, but for we who fly commercial, just pack the things in your checked luggage.


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14 Sep 2010, 1:45 pm

Heh, turns out this stuff was made up (or, at least, Apple denies it anyway) :P

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“Steve did visit Japan this summer for a vacation in Kyoto, but the incidents described at the airport are pure fiction. Steve had a great time and hopes to visit Japan again soon.”

– In its official comment on SPA!’s report Apple says that Steve Jobs is not a ninja.


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14 Sep 2010, 4:01 pm

I suppose it never occured to him that Bin Laden could easily afford a private jet and there is nothing to stop him carrying through banned stuff, coz he's going on his own plane, and then handing it over to his little band of kamikazee terrorists over a coffee in the lounge, before hastily departing and setting up his alibi.



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15 Sep 2010, 2:48 pm

I think there is a different aspect to the whole "airline security" issue: IIRC, taking out old artifacts from Japan is prohibited. The only swords you can get were the ones that were captured as loot during WW2, replicas and "Genuine Japanese" stuff made outside Japan.

Still, i cannot believe though that a billionaire like him couldn't have the things shipped instead. He could have put the stuff in his own box, put a pile of stamps on it and have it delivered to his doorstep in the Us.


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15 Sep 2010, 2:59 pm

Ichinin wrote:
I think there is a different aspect to the whole "airline security" issue: IIRC, taking out old artifacts from Japan is prohibited. The only swords you can get were the ones that were captured as loot during WW2, replicas and "Genuine Japanese" stuff made outside Japan.

Still, i cannot believe though that a billionaire like him couldn't have the things shipped instead. He could have put the stuff in his own box, put a pile of stamps on it and have it delivered to his doorstep in the Us.


That is basically what I brought up earlier. He could have just had them shipped. a lot less risk involved.


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