"Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! this is Cessna 4569! We're on fire!"
"Cessna 4569, this is XXX approach, say position!"
"Approach, we're on the ground at airport XXX!"
"Cessna 4569, try getting out of the $%@!ing airplane!"
People do stupid *expletive deleted*it when they panic.....
Maybe they thought the fire trucks would get there quicker if they made a call on the radio before hopping out, and just happened to be on the approach frequency.
Mexican registry twin (IIRC it was a Piper Chyenne) pulls out on the runway. COA was in a flare and probably didn't see the guy. I blurted out something about "Go around or you're gonna die!"
At an airport in Florida (might have been Daytona), a controller told me a Delta (MD-80 series plane probably) had to go around because an alligator was sunning itself on the runway, and I guessed no one in the tower noticed.
This same guy told me that there was this teenage makeout spot near the Daytona airport, and when they got bored at night, they would use the light gun to illuminate the vehicle. This guy was pretty goofy... during a tower tour from our big flight school at the airport, while he was working one of the radars, pulled his headset partway off and asked an aircraft to say speed and altitude three times in a row so just so we could hear what our radios sounded like from the other end, then asked us, "Anybody know that guy?"
I can't count the number of times a FLIB was in harms way, and if only I could have issued traffic to the little bastard. You might think its "big brother", but if you only knew the number of times some moron cut through a VFR transition at 200 knots, not talking to a soul, nearly killing 2 or 3 other aircraft.....
I once had a... high-strung female controller ask me in an annoyed tone of voice if I could identify the N-number of a C-152 or something at my altitude about a thousand yards away. I thought it was kind of ridiculous to even ask, it was much too far to read... you ever seriously ask anyone to do that?