ayu's dancers are pot people -_- (yahoo, 02/25/05)
 

this came to me via a yahoo alert:
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050224/kyodo/d88f07f80.html

Friday February 25, 12:41 AM
Dancing brothers for growing cannabis at home
(Kyodo) _ The popular dancing duo GoGo Brothers were arrested Thursday on suspicion of growing cannabis plants and possessing the dried leaves at their home in Fukuoka, police said.
The police identified the suspect as Rei (Rey) Abe, 21, and his 20-year-old brother Yu, both of Fukuoka's Hakata Ward. The brothers are well-known as dancers and dance instructors and have joined diva Ayumi Hamasaki's domestic tour as backup dancers.

The police alleged that the brothers had grown seven cannabis plants inside a storage space in their home since late last November.

The police also found dried cannabis leaves in seven plastic bags and a stick of dried leaves rolled up in paper, police officials said.

The police searched the suspects' home earlier in the day after receiving a tip-off that the two men were selling dried cannabis leaves.

Ah, I recall the two (Rei and Yu) from DOME TOUR. They are the ones who looked like they're probably biracial (possibly mixed with african?) Not sure, not important.

But anyway, maybe ayu toked up with them on occassion. j/k

I read this at another forum but this article seems to be more detailed with the last three sentences.
Not only were they growing it and probably abusing the drug, they were dealing, too? Well, I highly doubt that Ayumi will hire them again.

Hahahha that's too funny. I hate them two, anyway.

Ayu smokes pot. How else would she be able to write and compose songs like Naturally, Humming 7/4, and WONDERLAND. Especially WONDERLAND. She's stoned. :yes ...The question is, who's she gonna buy from now?

-.- Ha, you're so funny Phantoma..

They sure won't be dancing anytime soon.

maybe they can teach their cellmates some hot dance moves~~

Hilarious story

you got a screen of the dancers? i'm curious to see who they are now lol... and kudos to phantoma for explaining to us the real reason why she wrote those corny songs! :p.

What do these guys look like?

And not really surprised. I mean, they got money, what else are they going to do with it?

Caps from the DOME TOUR DVD. (During "Who...")

Yu -
http://girlyfolk.org/yu.jpg

Rei
http://girlyfolk.org/rei.jpg

ROFL they look like potheads too.

I don't really think it's a joking matter because Japan treats drugs very differently than, say, America. For example, when one of the Mach25 boys was caught for drug possession, the Ayu Ready? (Ayumi's tv show) site took down the page regarding Mach25's appearance on the show immediately. It was treated more like, "We'll pretend the problem isn't there."

Furthermore, Ayumi donated a lot of money to Thailand for the anti-drug program. These guys won't be dancing with her anytime soon, that's for sure.

oh dear...pot heads dancin' with ayu...><"

how come they possess drugs, this is stupid

Thanks for the article. They're not going to be dancing for Ayumi anymore...

lame, its not like they were shooting up or whatever, they were just smokin a bit of weed.
marijuana wasnt even illegal in japan til the occupation anyhow

aiyaiyai. oh well. +_+ ppl ppl..

ROFL!! That's freaking funny!! Yeah I don't like those 2 either =/

Hope that this won't somehow in some weird way make Ayu look bad...

wow...who would've known that this would ever happen?