I was looking at buying a nimbus 2 which had a drogue chute and the owner told a great story: Seems that when the ship was new he first flew it in Germany and the locals warned him about how effective the chute was and how and when to deploy and release it. Well he had gone on a xc and was returning late to the field with all the locals down and watching his pattern and landing. As he was turning base to final and high he deployed the chute. "It was amazing how fast I was coming down finishing the turn to final I realized I wouldn't make the field so pulled the lever back again to release the chute, but it wouldn't move! I realized that I had a candy bar in the pocket behind the handle and started smashing it as hard as I could to give room to pull the release handle back. Well when I looked up I was going to hit the fence on the approach end of the runway, I flared hard and just cleared the fence and rolled up, drogue still attached, in front of the hangar with all of the Germans standing out front clapping. Claiming that was the best use of the drogue chute they had ever seen!"

He said he never told them the true story or the fact he had to clean out his draws afterwards