This is a funny story sent to me by a colleague of mine, the pictures can be found here

" The story of how this occurred was told to me thusly, but keep in mind I wasn't there when it happened and didn't talk to the crew involved, so can't vouch for parts of it being entirely accurate: A/C 589, our somewhat elderly 737-300 which was due to be retired the next day, landed at BDL around midnight last Friday night.  Arriving at nearly the same time was the 'USAir West' flight from PHX.  Determined to score a minor victory in the ongoing East-West skirmish, the 737 pilot (a 40+ year guy) made it his business to get to the gate before those whippersnappers from Tempe.  His taxi clearance, in part, was to go via runway 19, which is a small G/A runway that is used only occasionally.  Our hero hadn't been to BDL in a couple of years and apparently didn't check the recent Jepp airport diagram, which would have showed him that runway 19 has been shortened from what he remembered, and no longer intersects runway 33 or the ramp like it used to.  So in his haste he taxied right between the pretty red threshold lights and off the pavement.  The dirt, having been recently worked, was soft and sandy.  The airplane turned left and headed for the nearest taxiway but ran out of momentum and sank in, with the nosewheels just missing a concrete catch basin, and stopped with the nose gear about 6 feet from the edge of the pavement.  He apparently had high power on the engines as the exhaust had dug a trench in the dirt behind #1.  After getting the pax deplaned and the bags offloaded and the airplane defueled, they left it for the night. 

Next morning we begged, borrowed and stole whatever planking and ramps we could get hold of.  The R/H MLG wasn't too deep so we leveled the dirt in front of it and laid down some plywood.  The left MLG was deeper, but we had some thick laminated planks from ASIG (they keep them around for their fuel trucks) so we dug down and put them in place for tracks.  Smaller ramps went in for the nosewheels.  We tried to move the airplane but the nose ramps were too steep and the shear pin in the towbar let go.  As we were considering plan B, reinforcements arrived--Pryz and another mechanic from PIT, who had some experience with this sort of thing; an engineer armed with the Boeing Aircraft Recovery Manual; and four mechanics from PHL.  We now knew we'd have to lift the nose and get some better surface under it.  The airport fire department offered an air bag, which looked too small for the job, so we got some bigger ones on the road from PIT.  The engineer was concerned because the airplane wasn't laterally level, so we tinkered with strut inflation and got it very close, then tried the small air bag.  It worked like a charm and started to lift the fuselage at only about 3.5 psi.  The rest of the job went pretty smoothly from there, and with some planks and plywood under the nosewheels, we towed it up to the taxiway.  A quick assessment revealed no damage or engine FOD, and we took it to the ramp.  We did what we could of the 'off-runway excursion' conditional inspection in MM chapter 5 and it ferried to PIT on Monday for fuse pin inspections and a gear swing, which turned out OK as far as I know.

During the process I powered up the airplane to charge the brake accumulator.  When the ACARS lit up there was an unacknowledged message on the screen from the night before, from the dispatcher to the pilot: 'So--what 'in' time do you want me to show?'