Sounds like we found our culprit Blackie
Reminds me of the time I watched a certain senior female pilot (circa 2007) of chartair land, and taxi in from the runway with the tow bar still attached to the nose wheel of her C210!
How the hell she started it, taxiied and departed without dinging the propeller or jamming the undercarriage when she retracted the gear I'll never know.
You wouldn't believe it unless you saw it! Thankfully it was the mail run with no pax.
I couldn't stop laughing for sometime