In article .com,
"Ben Hallert" wrote:

Hi guys,

A friend an I were stuck in traffic next to Santa Monica airport. I
looked over and saw the gate leading into the airport, and I joked to
my friend that if we had a transceiver, we could drive up to the runup,
then call SMO ground and request transition across the runway to the
lower southeast gate, shaving something like 10-15 minutes off our
drive (remarkably bad traffic that night).

It was just a funny distraction, but it made me wonder if anyone had
ever heard of someone doing something like that or equally silly.

I've *walked* across runway 27L (not the smallest or idlest of runways)
several times to and from the old inter-runway runup area at Oakland
(KOAK) with mock clearances from OAK North Field tower. (I was a judge
for a Saturday morning spot landing contest on 27L a few years ago and
owned the handheld we were using to coordinate it all with tower. For
the rest of the morning tower would keep pointing us out to traffic on
27R with a series of running gags about the lunatics on 27L attempting
the first human-powered flight from a running start (with the usual
anonymous on-air comments from the Kaiser bizjet guys across the field
like "Flap harder, guys!"), etc. -- Oakland tower tends to be a bit like
that...).

Hamish