Second post within a few hours, that’s quite outrageous, I know. But what are you gonna do, breaking news is breaking news.
Every once in a while some previous or current Johnny’s members make headline news for all the wrong reasons. Very often it has to do with their inability to cope with withdrawl from the fame they’ve once enjoyed and so they turn to drug abuse (here), theft or shoplifting (here and here), fraud (here), or all of the above (here). Or sometimes they just get drunk, take off their clothes and sing happy songs (which is the most evil of all crimes, if you’re a Johnny) at a public park in the middle of the night (here).
However, sometimes (much less frequently, and I don’t know if that’s a good or a bad thing) past or current Johnny’s members aren’t the perpetrators but the victims of a crime. Like in this case.
Okay, so apparently two unnamed* Johnny’s Jr members were riding in a taxi on December 19th, and when they were getting off in Shibuya the driver slammed the door shut with the boys’ bag still in the car and then rushed off. (As you may or may not know, Japanese taxis have semi-automatic doors that are operated by the driver.) The driver, 47-year-old Sato Takahiko, was later arrested and admitted that he “wanted their cash and just ran off with it“.
What an evil place the world has become. D:
But one thing’s for sure: that taxi driver had a completely wrong impression of how much (or rather: how little) money Johnny’s members (especially Juniors) actually make.
*EDIT: according to SANSPO one of the Juniors was Kis-My-Ft.2‘s Tamamori Yuta (the other one remains unnamed but is said to be a 19-year-old boy), and the amount of money involved was 170,000JPY (roughly US$2000). Hm, US$2000 sounds like a ridiculously large sum to carry around in a purse, but maybe that’s just me.
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