Falling anvils, stacks of dynamite, everything in the Acme catalog and a plethora of not-so-sturdy precipices — it seems like nothing was out of bounds when it came to Wile E. Coyote's futile pursuit ...

The Road Runner foretold my future. In the classic Warner Brothers cartoons of my childhood, whenever the Road Runner said, “Beep-beep,” an anvil crashed on Wile E. Coyote’s head. “Beep-beep” also ...

Despite what the Road Runner did in old cartoons and what many drivers practice, there is no provision for mad honking in the law. It doesn’t tend to fix anything, and generally just makes road safety ...