Coyote+vs.+Acme

**Coyote vs. Acme** By Mr. Schoff: My client, Mr. Wile E. Coyote, a resident of Arizona and contiguous states, does hearby bring suit for damages against the Acme Company, manufacturer and retail distributor of assorted merchandise, incorporated in Delaware and doing business in every state, district, and territory. Mr. Coyote seeks compensation for personal injuries, loss of business income, and mental suffering caused as a direct result of the actions and/or gross negligence of said company, under Title 15 of the United States Code Chapter 47, section 2072, subsection (a), relating to product liability... For the full story [|click here]

This short story is about Wile E. Coyote who is filing a law suit against the ACME Company(A Campany that Makes Everything). This is based off of the cartoon series in which the Coyote is trying to catch his pray (the Road Runner) yet all the equipment he uses always malfuntions on him. Throughout this story there are many reference toward the ACME Company and how there devices have cause Coyote so much trouble and damage. This piece is filled with alot of restatement which helps to make the characters point in this piece of literature. This story is very well written and has great humor to those that have watched the Looney Tunes.
 * Background Information**

Analysis

 * This short story is a great example of satire put into a lawsuit of fictional characters.
 * "doing business in every state, district, and territory" This is an examples of restatement were the Lawyer is trying to emphasis that this company practicaly has business everywhere.
 * The Lawyer uses very intelligent reasoning by coming up with actual United States code which, to summarize, says that you can file a law suit against a company if injuries were sustained do to manufacturer negligents. This also shows that the author must have done some research on this to get it correct.
 * "Paragraph One of the Report of Attending Physicians, prepared by Dr. Ernst Grosscup, details multiple fractures, contusions, and tissue damage suffered by Mr. Coyote as a result of this collision". The Lawyer talks to the jury about what happened to Mr. Coyote in a certain accident. The auther adds examples like this to convince the reader, or the jury, that ACME should pay the money owed to Mr. Coyote for the injurys he has sustained.
 * As in many lawyer cases, there are many examples of malfunctions or inproper labely throughtout this story. The auther mentions multiple the one of ACME's bombs and how it exploded prematurely cuasing multiply injuries to Mr. Coyote. The auther uses these examples to show that all of the ACME products are carelessly put together and that they always malfuntion.
 * The author mentions many times through restatement that the ACME company basically has a monopoly over the products that Mr. Coyote uses so he has no choice but to buy from them.
 * The other on many occassions trys to get his readers to feel sorry for Mr. Coyote as the cartoon does. An example of this is when the author mentions many of the injuries Mr. Coyote faced by one accident which are very bad.

This short story is filled with satire even though it is presented in a serious manner. Ther authors style in writing this was perfect to catch the interest of the reader. Even if someone has never seen the show they can get the basckground information just from the author. He adds alot of detail in this story so it is very easy to visualize what happened to Mr. Coyote.

Sources Cited
[|www.jamesfuqua.com/lawyers/jokes/**coyote**-**acme**.shtml] [|http://looneytunes.kidswb.com/] [|en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote_and_Road_Runner]