Citing safety concerns, unaccompanied youth will pay adult ticket prices at Nanaimo Clippers games
NANAIMO — Due to security and safety concerns, the BCHL’s Nanaimo Clippers are now charging unaccompanied minors the price of an adult ticket at their box office.
The Clippers announced the change on Tuesday, Sept. 26, saying it’s required to address “disruptive and unsafe behaviour by unaccompanied youth during our games,” which requires additional security.
Director of business operations for the Clippers Robb Hunter said they’ve tripled the amount of security personnel in order to help deal with these issues.
“We’ve had a number of complaints of the youngsters running throughout the facility, bumping into people, knocking into some senior citizens. We’ve had folks that have drinks knocked out of their hands and just overall being disruptive, running up and down aisles while play is going on which is not only disruptive for fans, but it’s also an unsafe practice.”