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QOTD: The Ninja Throwing Stars? They’re For My Friend Larry Ellison …

September 14, 2010 at 8:38 am PT

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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.

– Japanese tabloid SPA! Magazine via Bloomberg (c’mon Bloomberg–SPA!?) suggests that Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ black turtleneck may actually be a part of his Shinobi Shozoku

“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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  • http://twitter.com/unclejuicyjoe Joe A.

    ipod ninja

  • http://card.ly/raymondlau Raymond Lau

    Of course it’s “fake”. If he’s a real ninja, you won’t know he’s one. That is, until he wants you to. But by then it’ll be too late.

  • Anonymous

    1. Bloomberg hates Steve Jobs’ guts.
    2. Fact checking is beyond the comprehension of Blloomberg
    3. This piece of drive-by trash is now being picked up by bloggers and third-rate websites and reported as fact
    4. This is what passes for journalism today. Pathetic.

  • Mau

    Incredible. Bloomberg quotes a tabloid.

    Next, they’ll quote Star, Inquirer, or The Globe. Or maybe they are just watching too much TMZ.

  • Anonymous

    If Jobs wants shuriken, he would obviously ask Jony Ives to carve them out of a single block of liquid metal and then bathe them in unicorn tears.

    This is terrible reporting, but it’s great pop culture.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Frank-Guillen/100000687065036 Frank Guillen

    Some people believe Steve is Paris Hilton and this is even offensive to believe that Steve would be so moronic to try to bring any illegal guns to United States without any legal consecuence, come on people, but what is more stupid is that a Ninja like Steve Jobs would never travel with his combat instruments, those instruments would be in the Cloud for easy access…. What a joke.

  • Alan Sanders

    But a ninja would deny being a ninja, so we may never know.

  • Anonymous

    TMZ gets things right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Okuda-Kosuke/100001598826210 Okuda Kosuke

    If he took self-burnig Ninja “i-Pod nano” with him, Japanese airport officer had to stop him going US.

  • http://twitter.com/shiv_jags Shivkumar Jagannath

    whats next? shuriken shaped ipod nano?

  • http://openid.sacrilicio.us/aaron Matunos

    Clearly, another area where pirates are superior to ninjas. No one’s ever stopped me from taking my peg leg on a plane!