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Keep Out

Keep Out

Assuming you can even find the place out in the woods, you'd have to scale three layers of electrified fences tipped with barbed wire coils. Then the trained dogs, their ex-military handlers, guards in towers armed with scoped rifles, infrared cameras, heat-tracking spotlights, a moat filled with electrified eels, another moat filled with boiling water, a ring of glass shards embedded in concrete, a quicksand pit, a habitat filled with dengue-carrying, extremely hungry mosquitoes. If you could get past all that, and also assuming you’re attractive, only then can you get into the club. There's also a $35 cover charge.