When I was going through my engine starting procedure, I heard this guy on the Piper requesting taxiing clearance and being cleared to taxi to runway 15 at Reggio Calabria airport (which I later found is just a little bit short for a fully loaded 737... I barely did it :P). I swear the fellow never was cleared to takeoff, neither was I told to hold short for him. But I knew he was out there somewhere, so I held short nevertheless. Good thing I did... otherwise it would have been de profundis time for a lot of people. Instead, only one person lost his life. The tower controller guy was found dead in his booth, with a headphone-and-microphone set sticked down his troath. Lt. Columbo was assigned the case.
), he would have stuck the headphone up the controller's... er... um... I said enough. 