Running a club is not easy. You need the right DJ playing the right music, the right lighting and sound systems, the right decoration; all of which will hopefully combine together to attract the punters. What you don't need is druggies, drunks, troublemakers and gays.
Not that I have anything personal against gays but they tend to take over any club that they go to. First you get a few turning up then a lot, and then their over the top behaviour annoys your straight customers, who then go somewhere else. That is why I have always banned gay guys, who have got enough clubs of their own.
One night I got a call from the bouncers who needed a decision about who to let in. When I went outside there were three guys in their early thirties and three young girls. The guys did not look gay, in fact they looked pretty hard to me. The doorman only knew that they were gay because they went to the same gym as him.
Their leader who was named Rob said to me, "Look I promised to take my little sister clubbing for her eighteenth birthday, and I can hardly take her and her friends to a gay club." Now, normally I would have felt that was reasonable and let them in, but I was in a bad mood So I said, "Rules are rules, " and left it to the door staff to deal with the angry guys and tearful girls.
Later that evening I was working in my office at the back of the club, when I heard my car alarm go off. I rushed outside, only to have the barrel of a gun pressed against my temple. The three guys were back and extremely pissed off. "You have spoilt our night," said Rib, "Now we are going to spoil yours."
I was forced at gunpoint into the back of a beat up Land Rover, with the gun toting Rob next to me. The black guy Oscar and the Italian Mario sat in the front seats. The Land Rover shot off away from the club and started to drive out into the countryside, I was worried about where we were going, and what would happen to me when we got there.
The off road vehicle drove for about half an hour before arriving at our destination in the middle of nowhere. The other men made me get out of the vehicle, and I realised just how cold it had become. It was just after midnight but already the ground was covered by a thick frost.