ummm... I did. Once. Out west, unfamiliar with the airport, after hours, tower closed, not able to get runway lights on.
Worked fine, although I'm single-engine-land, and this story is about a large airliner.
I did the same thing. Hashes on the runway were snow-blown, there were no aircraft on the taxiway, and it was only me in a Beech B19.
Oh, and I was a student pilot.
And Approach advised me that I was lined up wrong so I slipped on the final and actually hit the runway with room to spare.