Even the dog is a male Lab, so my poor wife is pretty much surrounded by idiots with big ideas.

To be fair, it was three foot lengths of balsa stick and we were wearing either helmets or hardhats. And the UMs run on little brushed pager motors with 150 mAh 1 cells, so they're pretty light, but fast. Biggest threat was probably pulling a muscle from laughing so hard, although the whole idea came up after my son tagged me really bad in the temple. That started the whole, 'what we need is helmets and sticks!'