Steve Jobs carried 'ninja throwing stars' in hand luggage

He forgot to use his RDF.

Moments later, the guards could be seen giving each other hi-5's, pumpin' the air and saying 'who's yo daddy!'

the bootnote update

behold! no mundane disappearing in a puff of smoke for ninja steve... he's gone and made the rest of the world disappear instead.

this doesn't ring true

i can't imagine the airport staff at narita dealing with such a high profile person in such a way

having taken swords through narita a number of times the only problem was to provide evidence that they were shin-to and not culteral assets. each time the staff were incredibly helpful and extremely polite.

shuriken (or more likely shaken) would have been placed in the check in or given in the care of the flight staff

pirate cos pirates like swords but not ninjas

Retaliation

Perhaps Steve should stop shipping Apple products to Japan. Either they'll relent from having the next piece of iJunk withheld from their possession and ship him his death stars, or he'll be doing the whole country a big favor and nobody from the Japanese government will question Steve Jobs' luggage contents again.

Bullshit!

It's amazing what crap people believe without even the faintest sign of critical thinking.

FYI, the story has already been proven false. Nice to see all the Apple trolls fall over this one (see above) and making total idiots of themselves, as usual.

=:~)

perhaps

At his next press launch for the latest iShite they could play "enter the ninja" by Die Entwood !

Sounds like a fine model for generating international publicity

1) Pay an offshore tabloid news firm to run a verging-on-believable outrageous story about one's own celebrity

2) Disclaim the event, courteously

3) Reap the gains in popularity, as people run on and on about it... until the next "big news" thing, sure. If it results in a net popularity gain, that's return on investment.

I honestly don't believe Apple would have to stoop to that, today, or ever would - they're far too focused on aesthetics to ever stoop to something so crass as a publicity stunt...one might suppose.

Some other firms might feel as that it would serve them, to try such a "vapor" publicity stunt. Maybe it would even be entertaining.

....just throwing a bone out there, in a direction generally towards the west coast of the states. That should cover both Microsoft and Yahoo.

In full disclosure: I do not own any stock in any publicly traded Asian-island tabloid magazines, and neither, in Microsoft nor Yahoo Inc.

Mine's the one with a biography by PT Barnum in the pocket.

Anonymous, because it is.

As much as I'd like it to be true...

I think it does not hold water. I mean, they would have to be 'very special' shuriken, as shuriken are quite easily available as far as I recall, in the US.

Careful Now

Trying to take away his ninja-toys could cause Steve to flip out and kill people.

Now, who would win in a fight between Apple and The Pirate Bay?