The NYTimes had fun over the weekend.
I snuggled against the bumper of the silver 2003 Boxster (2800 pounds), and slipped the Styrofoam pad under the right rear tire. I placed the Vertu face down on the pad to keep its keypad and crystal display from being scratched.
... I held my breath as I watched Denise back up the Boxster. I heard a soft crunch as the right rear tire rolled over the Liquidmetal casing of the Vertu. I dug the phone out of the Styrofoam pad. The crystal display panel lighted up immediately.
Denise insisted on running over it again. Once again, the Vertu made it through without a scratch. "Let's try it out on the street," she said, grinning.
We ran over the Vertu twice more out on the street with the Styrofoam pad underneath the casing. Reveling in the existential absurdity of our testing procedure but not wanting to press our luck, I declared our experiment a Sisyphean success.
Denise refused to quit. She demanded that I replace the Styrofoam pad with a piece of notebook paper. Then she ran over the Vertu for a fifth time, and for a fifth time, it emerged unscathed.
[via Engadget]
