[rocknthehawk]

Not necesarrily having to do with the robot...

my first and only trip to Atlanta (2005), while having our robot inspected, one of the inspectors had a laugh about my hair (i had my mohawk spiked at the time), with the comment "time for a trim!". He pulled out some small scissors, and we kind of laughed. He then cut part of my hair off.

I don't know if he thought it wasn't real or what, but that was a very big deal. It wasn't a few millimeters like a trim would be, it was an inch or more at the back of my head...when you hold the world record by a few inches, every little bit counts. A few people from FIRST came over to our pit later to apologize, and the inspector did the same later that day.