RISQUÉ BUSINESS

The economy's tumble is hitting everyone, including strip clubs. So the owner of Cheeques Lounge, a go-go strip club featured in the film "The Wrestler", can't be happy that he was forced to shut the place down over the weekend for three and a half hours. The shut-down occurred after a man allegedly came into the club and showed off a mortar shell to one of the dancers. News 12 New Jersey reporter John Klekamp covered the story in Linden, NJ, where police arrested 41-year-old Taras Lyashkevich. Witnesses claim Lyashkevich pulled out the mortar and then proceeded to drop it! Fortunately, it didn't go off. If it had, Klekamp suggests the tabloid headline might read: "Go Go Club Goes Boom (chicka) Boom." By the way, Klekamp tells me that in addition to Lyashkevich's legal troubles, he's been barred from Cheeques for life.