# Wile E. Coyote Column
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wile-e-coyote-column/89810
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
**Created:** [October 26, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wile-e-coyote-column/89810 "2001-10-26T17:20:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Silverwing55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silverwing55)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wile-e-coyote-column/89810/1 "2001-10-26T17:20:32Z")
…FWIW, in the early 80s National Lampoon (when it was funny)did a technically perfect story called ‘Coyote v. Acme’, the account of Mr. Coyote’s lawsuit against the company and its products. The jury found for Acme at the end of the story - but NatLamp got so much irate mail on it that they wrote a story a couple months later where the Coyote appealed and won.
For my money, it was a perfect way to end the saga._S_
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wile-e-coyote-column/89810/2 "2001-10-26T21:11:43Z")
And the column in question is, [Did Wile E. Coyote ever catch the Road Runner?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010330.html)
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### Author:  [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wile-e-coyote-column/89810/3 "2001-10-27T01:26:18Z")
If anyone’s interested in reading the “transcript” of the court case, written by Ian Frazier in _The New Yorker_, there’s an excerpt here:
[Wile E.'s Motion](http://beebo.org/smackerels/coyote-v-acme.html)