Angry couple demand comedy club pay up – because of the Ukraine crisis

A couple have demanded a refund for their planned visit to a Blackpool comedy club tomorrow night… because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The pair have bombarded the Comedy Station with dozens of abusive messages, saying it’s unsafe for them to travel they will take legal action if they don’t get their money back.

And they even believe ‘everyone in Blackpool [is] sticking together to scam people during a war’ after failing to get refunds on their train tickets from Hull and their bed-and-breakfast.

The venue has now made the pair’s complaint public via Twitter, and responded: ‘We genuinely didn’t think we’d need to say this, but Russia moving troops into Ukraine does not entitle you to a refund, no matter how abusive you are to our Box Office staff. As far as we’re aware, Russia hasn’t invaded Hull yet.’

‘Due to events in Russia and Ukrayne it is not safe for us to travel from Hull as we are both retired,’ said the misspelled message. ‘Due to this it's safer that we stay nearer to home until it is sorted.’

A box office worker identified as Rob offered to transfer their tickets to another day, but the customer raged: ‘I DO NOT want that because I don’t know how long this will go on for. NO ONE KNOWS!!!!’

Threatening to get trading standards and their solicitor involved, they added: ‘We have already lost money on train tickets and our bed and breakfast booking as they say we have just chose to not go but this is probably just every one in Blackpool sticking together to scam people during a war. DISGUSTING.’

We genuinely didn’t think we’d need to say this, but Russia moving troops into Ukraine does not entitle you to a refund, no matter how abusive you are to our Box Office staff.

As far as we’re aware, Russia hasn’t invaded Hull yet 🤦🏻‍♂️#entitledmuch pic.twitter.com/2E4gBST3nm

— Comedy Station Comedy Club (@blackpoolcomedy) February 24, 2022

Ryan Gleeson, the Comedy Station’s managing director and regular compere, pictured, also published his response on Twitter.

He wrote to them saying: ‘Despite offering multiple resolutions to your problem, you persisted in calling [Rob] a liar, swearing at him, asking if he "masturbates to a poster of Putin" (He doesn’t by the way, | have a rule that he’s only allowed to do that to posters of me), at which point he, quite rightly, advised you that he was not going to continue the conversation and gave your our email address.

‘Since ending the conversation, you've messaged a further 17 times, abusing Rob, which is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

‘As Rob mentioned, you are not entitled to a refund, simply because you live "nearer to Russia than we do". You have now been blocked from all of our social media accounts and any further contact will be ignored.’

Kyiv is 1,428 miles from Blackpool as the crow flies, but a mere 1,317 miles from Hull.

Published: 25 Feb 2022