Pity poor Wile E. Coyote. The upright, educated, motivated and hungry member of Hardheadipus oedipus, er…Canis latrans, Mr. Coyote learned seven ways from Sunday just how badly physics were working against him. All of his various traps, gizmos, and who knows how many bird seed drops only earned him broken bones, cactus spines in locations that should not be mentioned, and a deep appreciation for the power of gravity at least a couple of times an episode. You know the routine: he blows by the cliff edge, hangs out in open air for a second, then upon noticing just how screwed he is, breaks out the “Yipe!” sign and proceeds to plummet to the canyon floor below. And I’m willing to bet most of you heard the whistle and impact noise in your heads right now, didn’t you?

There are many, many federal laws that would be violated by dropping a live coyote to see what would happen, but what about dropping a car onto a trampoline? Under normal circumstances, the result would be easy to explain: car hits trampoline, trampoline folds up like origami left out in the rain, and someone gets to clean up a lot of glass, plastic and scrap metal. But what if the trampoline could hold up to a car dropping in from the heavens? That’s a question that now has an answer. It’s made of a kevlar pad, garage door springs and some legitimate steel tubing that weighs in at about 4,000 pounds. There’s other stuff dropped, too…an Atlas ball, watermelons, and such…but surely you want to know what a Holden Barina will do once it’s released from it’s tether.