The headline says it all really, doesn’t it? A man dressed in a white ninja outfit tried to rob the Greensboro, North Carolina Apple Store this morning by smashing through the plate glass facade with his Honda. How do you think that went for him?
Not too well actually. Upon being approached by a security guard, the white ninja fled the scene almost immediately after the 4:43am crash, without having actually stolen anything.
As for the Honda? It was stolen. No more about the mysterious ‘ninja’ is known at this point.
Pfft. Not much of a ninja, in my opinion. Ninjas get into locked vaults by disappearing and reapparating in a puff of smoke, not by smashing into one with their crappy car. Would a ninja even drive a Honda>
[Bigger photo via 9to5Mac]
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
52 responses to “White Ninja Smashes Honda Through Front Of NC Apple Store”
Yes, a ninja would drive a Honda. It’s low profile and reliable. You’d never see it coming until it was too late.
Ninja more likely to drive a Honda than an American car…
So he’s not been caught, and they don’t think anything is missing. Surely he’s a pretty good ninja then.
A ninja is likely to drive a japanese car, right?
He wasn’t trying to steal anything !
He was delivering Ninja Stars to Steve Jobs!
Wow with all these robbery attempts Apple will have to get into the physical security business. Goodbye Brinks.
Hey! I drive a 2000 Accord and it’s a great car! What’s up with the Honda bashing?
They are both Japanese on origin.
Actually Jobs was trying prepare against just such attacks by bring back throwing stars and reverse engineering them so they could make shuriken proof employe shirts.
You can;t see Ninjas, so a mac or two would be gone without you noticing. It’s clear he was not a ninja.
feel sorry for that hanging macbook
I live in Greensboro, so I drove by the Apple Store on my lunch break in hopes of seeing some of the ninja’s path of destruction, but alas, the windows had already been fixed.
Maybe the the glass ninjas put them back up!
So what do WhitePirates drive?
What? No AppleCare?
Buicks.
Sure he could drive a Honda, but his Clan would hunt him down and kill him for it. No not for failing to get his target, for driving the Honda.
HondaCare?
HondaCare?
No, Apple would just buy the world-wide supply of throwing stars.
Realized he spent way too much for that Mac.
I’ve got a ’97 accord and my next will be a Honda too – makes me a little sad to see Honda getting made fun of :-(
Anyone noticed the glass just cracked and not shattered into pieces? I’m more interesed to know what security film they put on it…
uh, clearly a sony ninja in a new desperate paradigm of competitor espionage
Agreed, Not to mention it’s a japanese car for a japanese person.
On a side note, John Brownlee sucks so bad. What a cock gobbler
Yes, it’s a japanese car for a japansese person.
On a side note, John Brownlee sucks so bad. What a cock gobbler!!
good eye K3vkoh, never notice the cracked glass.. i thought the glass vanish with the ninja smoke… i gusss they use zagg invisibleSHILED (ishield)
I tried to steal american car.. but it was just to hard so just i steal my neighbor’s honda..
A car fan war on a mac site; that’s new.