Hopefully you're in the process of designing a shield to protect all your controls!
Sounds like you guys learned the hard way that even though the Victors look pretty solid, every piece of the control system is relatively fragile and should be protected from falling bins, other robots, etc.
As for robots gone wild, I don't have any stories quite that good, but when we visited the St. Louis regional I could have sworn that I saw at least a couple of robots that had their rotating lights turn on after the end of the match (I don't believe they weren't tethered...). I think I saw TechnoKats have an incident like that. Can anyone from that team confirm/deny?