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 ...

Beep beep! Fans of the beloved Looney Tunes franchise know this to be the common motto of the popular Road Runner character eternally in conflict with the desperate Wile E. Coyote. But Beep beep!

In what could have been a scene taken directly from Looney Tunes, a roadrunner tried to hitchhike a ride from a park ranger in Arizona. While it's unclear whether there was an actual coyote, the ...