Generally they're mounted high enough you can't hit them with a stick (totally sincere here: I am so curious where the idea that every american has a baseball bat came from. We don't, that's like assuming every canadian has a hockey stick). The best method of physically damaging them is just to loop a chain around them and pull them down then hit them with your standard-issue Size 2 Louisville Slugger. But that takes time and several people, so for a quick & clean takedown laser pointers are fairly effective.