4 DME is for lightweights
As I was reading this thread I was going to comment that 4 or 5 DME wasn't that uncommon at all and that I recalled seeing much tighter than that!
I then realised a theme was forming with a certain midlands headquartered operator:
I recall watching one of their super squat DC9s (a -10 or -15 I think, someone will know) making an approach to 23 or so I thought. It then turned final somewhere over Cranford with somewhere between 1 and 2d to run; and of course was beautifully painted on to 28R.
Spectacular.
The closest I've come in recent years was as PAX on an arrival onto 27L earlier this year in an A319, where the p/f stopped her in very short order and vacated onto taxiway alpha. Made my night at any rate!