They cant possibly be worse than a fishing pole which I can attest to hurting like hell. Had a neighbor when I was about 13-14 who had a garage door installed and had a keypad on it, a friend who lived next door and I found out he used his street address number as the code. We started opening it every day just before he got home from work and would sit and watch out the window as he got more and more pissed each time.
Well he knew we were doing it and told us to stop and we didnt listen so following the normal routine I went over and opened one day and just as it opened he came out of it with fishing pole in hand and started beating the *&%$&^ out of me with it. I lived maybe 12-15 houses down and he chased and hit me with it all the way to my house wearing shorts of course. I was welted for quite a while.