Steve Jobs Still Parking In Handicapped Spaces — The Pictures
10:10 pm, August 25th, 2008, Leander Kahney
Steve Jobs is still parking in handicapped spaces at Apple, according to a new snap posted to Flickr.
Snapper Rana Sobhany spotted Jobs’ Mercedes SL55 AMG parked in a handicapped spot at the Apple campus over the weekend.
“Mercedes? Check. No license plate? Check. Handicap spot? Yep, this is Steve Jobs’ car!!!” she writes.
Jobs, of course, has a long history of parking in handicapped parking spaces at Apple. The reports go back years, and have recently been documented on Flickr.
Since 2006, Jobs’ car has been snapped in handicapped parking spaces at Apple at least five times. See the pictures after the jump.
Jobs drives a Mercedes SL55 AMG, a super fast, $130,000 sports car. Equipped with a supercharged 5.5 liter V-8 engine, the SL55 is the fastest Benz in America.
“Crack the throttle, and this posh heavyweight lunges forward like a shark that’s been invited to nibble a chunk of Britney Spears,” wrote Tony Swan in Car&Driver’s review. Curiously, it’s not the top of the line Merc: the $190,00 SL65 is. You’d expect Jobs to plump for the best.
Apple veteran Andy Hertzfled reports on his history of the Mac website, Folklore.org, that Jobs was constantly parking in the restricted spaces. “He seemed to think the blue wheelchair symbol meant the spot was reserved for the chairman,” Hertzfeld writes.
In a comment to Hertzfeld’s post, Dan Cochran, who worked at Apple, noted that one day someone converted the handicapped “wheelchair” graphic into the Mercedes logo.
“I thought it was hilarious but as I recall Steve didn’t find it particularly funny at all,” he notes.
Quipped former Apple executive, Jean-Louis Gassee, when he saw Jobs park in a restricted spot: “I never realized those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped…” (According to Wikiquote, Jean-Louis now says morally handicapped when retelling the story.)March 3, 2006 Photo by steevil
January 13, 2007 Photo by brianamerige In the caption, the photographer says: “Jobs didn’t really seem to care about the car much. He owns the darn parking lot, so he’s parked all crookedly and in a handicap space, no less.”
November 18, 2007 Picture by morethanreal
March 26, 2008 Picture by roachtt3. “I guess he was late for work this morning.”
August 22, 2008. Picture by ranajune. “Mercedes? Check. No license plate? Check. Handicap spot? Yep, this is Steve Jobs’ car!!!”
Posted by Leander Kahney in Steve Jobs | Comment on this article
who cares. he basically owns the parking lot and all the spaces any ways. Plus it’s not like it’s the only handicap space at Apple… And the cars next to his don’t have handicap signs hanging from their mirrors so he’s parking in the furthest one from the building letting the real handicap people park closer… But you would think that he would have his own designated parking spot to park in…
unclejerry, on August 26th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Why “no license plate”?
macandal, on August 26th, 2008 at 7:51 am
The fact is that his illness allows him to apply for and receive permission to park in those lovely blue spots.
vansouza, on August 26th, 2008 at 7:58 am
I’m a lot more intrigued by the lack of licence plate than the handicapped parking.
Hypersky, on August 26th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
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Cuale costo vo sobana Steve Jobs! Sintiliabin shin fron sinty retricen l croniven kalskü. ØRdinO vanst binny Handicapped vin (shin?) bonobo.
DespicableJay, on September 1st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
What? I saw other people commenting in made up languages and it looked like fun…
DespicableJay, on September 1st, 2008 at 1:29 pm
I also find him driving almost a year without plates interesting, almost as interesting as the last picture that was taken next month!
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Otra de Steve - CiberPC, on September 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 am
@rprather
thanks for noticing the typo. i fixed it.
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This really shows what money can do and the cops don’t care, but then the whole picture is not shown, is this on private property??? If so the cops must be called and someone must come, but once they see who’s car “Oh well nothing I can do about it” is the answer you get. I have a handi cap plate on my car and I also carry a hanging notice if I should ride in a friends car. Me, I would park my old car close to his and then watch him say a few choice words… I would have it all on tape for the whole world to see….
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i once read an article that stated jobs has no license plate because it kept getting stolen. no idea if that’s true or not, but it would make sense.
steve jobs, on October 3rd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
1. the SL55 AMG doesnt cost $130,000usd … maybe in yen or something, but a quick trip to mbusa.com will set things straight.
2. steve jobs makes more $ before 6am than most people make in their lifetime
3. now that we know that ‘tha steve’ likes to bling w/ no cali plates on the car how about an office/web pool to see how long before he ends up showing his pancreas to the local popo in cupertino via intense negotiations?
4. will this change the inverted standards for hiring at the apple store? note to self, grow some dredlocks and dye them purple and invest in birkinstocks. and act like a peecee wiz instead of a thoughtfully spoken mac guy. who knows the entire product line up like the back of his hand.
5. i still cant afford a mac. want one but oh well.
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I think Jobs discarded the car from 2006. same place, same pose
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