Nothing says "I told you so" quite like a lap dance.

For months leading up to the opening of Golddiggers, neighborhood activists fought the business, predicting male customers would be offered more than food and drink at the "gentlemen's club" near Bannister Mall.

But in September, after a lengthy court fight in which owners touted it as a respectable restaurant and bar, Golddiggers got the permits it needed and opened.

And today, it is closed. Tomorrow, too.

The place is serving a two-day suspension of its liquor license for -- you got it -- lap dances. Employees with the Kansas City's Regulated Industries Division observed the activity on multiple covert visits to Golddiggers at 5540 Bannister Road.

"We told everybody what was going to be going on there and now we have the proof," Carol McClure, co-chairwoman of the Southern Communities Coalition, said Sunday. "The people who run it are going to get by with what they can. That's just the kind of place it is."

Not so, says Thomas Loughlin, Golddiggers managing partner.

"We've taken steps to make sure the girls don't engage in that type of activity," said Loughlin, a Kansas City attorney. "We have posted signs telling the girls they can't do that. The girl in the latest incident has been terminated."

Loughlin says between 10 and 14 female employees have been fired for similar infractions.

McClure said she doesn't believe that the lap-dancing "girls" were acting on their own. She thinks they were following orders from their bosses.

McClure also wonders why, if the city handed down the two-day suspension on Friday, the business was allowed to remain open over the weekend.

"That's their busiest time," McClure complained. "Why were they allowed to serve it on Monday and Tuesday?"

City officials could not be reached Sunday for comment, but an earlier press statement said the city and Golddiggers agreed to a suspension to be served today and Tuesday.

The dates didn't please McClure, but she still praised the shutdown and vowed that opponents would remain vigilant in their efforts to get Golddiggers closed permanently because, according to her, it detracts from an already struggling perception of the Southland community.

"I've not been in there," McClure said. "But I hear it's extremely dark."