Remains of the Day: Go ninja, go ninja, go

03.06.2011

In addition to its , Apple made another change to some of its retail stores for the recent tenth anniversary: a poster thanking all of the company's store employees. It's a touching gesture, but did they have to put it all ?

(MyFox8.com)

So, supposedly a person dressed in a white "ninja suit" crashed a car into the Greensboro, North Carolina Apple Store early Friday morning, in what appeared to be an attempted robbery. However, after crashing the car--an older model two-door Honda--the perpetrator then ran away without taking anything. Okay, let's get some things straight: First, if it were a ninja, they never would have been seen. Second: ninjas dressed in white? What is this, ? Thirdly, is a ninja really likely to take such an inelegant approach as into a store? a twenty-year-old Honda? Everybody knows ninjas travel only by motorcycle or hang-glider. And finally, if it were a ninja, they would have wiped out the entire store's inventory without leaving a trace. So, , this headline should have read "Ninja Imposter Crashes Car into Apple Store." Did anyone even a ninja for comment? Geez. The state of journalism these days.

(I take ninjas very seriously, and so should you, if you know what's good for you.)