Steve Jobs or Dwight Schrute?

iNinja? At least we know why Jobs wears that baggy, all-black clothing now.

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. - Bloomberg

(Insert geek joke here)

Update on September 17, 2010 by Frank@OBOW

Jobs and Apple deny this story.

Comments

[Maria]

Perhaps another case of ignorant me, or it depends on the airport...but I didn't know one had to go through security to board their own private plane. (So I've been told by those that travel this way / have such planes - no security TSA style mess or lines.)

[Frank II]

Maria, you don't in the U.S. (On charters, the pilot is supposed to check your ID.) However, Steve Jobs was in Japan at the time and each country has their own rules.

[Maria]

Good point Frank II. I've only been on private planes within North America a couple of times, never overseas. (hey - I still went one bag too!) Interesting that the plane's owner may need their luggage scanned in other countries!

[Berg]

Apparently the Ninja Steve story isn't entirely true...

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-09-15/tech/ninja.steve.jobs_1_ninja-apple-spokesman-steve-dowling-apple-tv?_s=PM:TECH