Strip Tents??

Obviously, the guy who wrote this is just jealous that HE doesn't get invited to these parties...

Municipality busy cleaning up abandoned nightclub tents
Published Date: April 09, 2007

KUWAIT: The Municipality began their usual annual camp removal campaign in March and recent reports have them clearing out more than the average family campsite. Instead, they are tearing down bars, strip clubs, and brothels...all situated in the blossoming spring camping areas of Kuwait's deserts. With the normal Municipality camp clean ups, officials can be found removing family camps left up beyond the government imposed removal deadline. They remove the clutter, garbage, and left over tents in order to clear the land, making way for the desert spring flowers and grass to blossom and wild life to feed.

This year, however, they are playing cleanup for abandoned nightclub tents. The clubs, which from the pictures published in local newspapers, appear to have been anything but makeshift, boast marble bar tops, bars filled with bottles of the local favourite Johnnie Walker Red and Black (now emptied), sofas, lighting effects to offer just the right ambiance, and one particularly professional looking operation came equipped with two poles (minus the dancers of course...although one can assume they were well used prior to their abandoning).

In the photographs, officials can be seen gesturing above dishevelled beds, complete with animal skin blankets. One strange photograph depicts two officials in the background with the foreground marble topped bar playing host to a pair of silver high-heeled boots and a pack of women's feminine hygiene products. This clean up must have been, in a word, memorable.

As long ago as December, rumours were rampant that there were couples only, alcohol serving, DJ playing, New Years tent parties afoot. Any Kuwaiti who wanted to know more about the "rumour" only needed to ask a few more Kuwaitis about the "rumour", until you found the right Kuwaiti, who knew the right Kuwaiti, who could direct you to the right spot in the desert.

One question comes to mind, in this tiny country of less than three million people where at least every Kuwaiti has at least one relative or friend who works for the Ministry of the Interior (the all encompassing ministry which includes the police, intelligence, vice-squad, highway patrol, drug enforcement) why didn't anyone in the MoI know about the tent night clubs? Why was it that the Municipality played clean up to the mess the MoI should have found prior to its abandoning?

Word spreads fast among Kuwaitis. When there are large scale night club operations underfoot, whether they be in the desert camping grounds, apartments, homes, or beach houses, every Kuwaiti knows at least one Kuwaiti who knows a Kuwaiti who knows the low down. Again, the situation begs the question: why didn't anyone in the MoI know? Are those guys just 'not in the know'? I don't think so...but I'm just an average Kuwaiti, so how would I know?