Steve Jobs Stopped at Airport Over Ninja Stars

[Bob Hubbard]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-stopped-airport-ninja-stars/story?id=11632959

Airport officials stopped Jobs from taking the sharp blades on to his private plane, according to a report from Bloomberg news via the Japanese magazine SPA!.
The officials reportedly spotted the stars inside the CEO's carry-on luggage as he was heading home after a family vacation in Kyoto.

I wonder if they helped his iPhone reception?

Also

Steve Jobs has vowed never to return to Japan after authorities prevented him from taking ninja stars aboard his private jet,

http://slatest.slate.com/id/2267239/?v=1#9

Stephen Hayes was reportedly contacted for some info according to his Facebook

Stephen Hayes Just got off the phone from an interview with reporter from Slate.com
He wanted to know all about ninja stars.
Seems Apple Steve Jobs was apprehended bringing ninja stars into the US in his luggage - can that really be true? - and Slate wanted some real deal info and so contacted me.
Article should be up on Slate.com toni...ght by 7 pm or so.
Another fun and funny "day in my life".

 

[CoryKS]

Girls only want boyfriends who have skills. Programming skills... ninja throwing star skills...

 

[Omar B]

That is weird. I always thought you had a bit more freedom with what you could take on your own plane, as long as it's not produce, livestock, drugs, or bombs.

Ya know I've been seriously considering pilot lessons since last January? Because I hate flying I thought it would be cool, but knowing me I would end up in the same trouble.

 

[rlobrecht]

Apple has stated that Steve Jobs did go to Japan, however the story is fiction.

Another forum had a post by someone familiar with the airport, and people clearning security for private planes are dumped into the same area as those boarding commercial airlines.