DRUGGING CLUB-GOERS CAUGHT WITH PANTS DOWN

JOHANNESBURG: About 80 naked men socialising at a New
Doornfontein nightclub were caught with their pants
down when the venue was raided by police.

"The Factory", a strictly men-only club where the policy is to pay and
leave your clothes at the door, was raided on Saturday night in what
police say is the first of a string of planned drug raids on
nightclubs in and around Johannesburg.

Two men were arrested for CAT possession, one for dagga and the fourth
for the possession of a schedule 7 drug without a prescription.

"Most of the patrons had their shoes on, so I would imagine the drugs
were found in their socks," said Insp Dennis Adriao, a police
spokesman for Gauteng.

Police recovered drugs valued at about R20 000 from the floor where
they had been hastily ditched by patrons during the raid.

The 56-year-old club manager was arrested for trading without a liquor
licence. - Mercury Correspondent