Indistinguishable from a normal broom, except by means of detection of its magic, and completely identical to a broom of flying by all tests short of attempted use, the broom of animated attack is a very nasty item. 

If a command word ("fly", "soar", etc.) is spoken, the broom will do a loop the loop with its hopeful rider, dumping him or her off on his or her head from 6-ft to 9-ft off the ground. The broom will then attack the stunned victim, swatting the face with the straw/twig end to blind and beating with the "bald headed end", the handle. Each such attack takes place twice per round, the broom attacking as if it were a 4 hit die monster. The straw end will cause blindness for 1 round if it hits. The other end causes 1-3 hit points of damage when it hits. The broom is armor class 7 and takes 18 hit points to destroy.