Many years ago, got to work, walked round the corner of the Town Hall to be confronted by a parked Swordfish, complete with (hopefully dummy) torpedo. They're bloody big, for a single engined plane. T'was there for commemorative purposes, which was fine by me! Not what you expect to find parked in front of the office, though.
At my previous workplace, there was an "unfortunate incident" involving a PBY catalina. They took the mayor up in it, and killed him when it crashed into the sea... Not quite how they intended to treat their "VIP" guest.
At the same place, I had a visitor in for a meeting. Half way through, several Spitfires turned up and started cavorting over the port. Meeting ran a little late..