A PLT RECEIVED A HOLD SHORT CLRNC AFTER TOUCHDOWN AND WAS UNABLE TO COMPLY PRIOR TO XING THE RWY AT PSC.

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ON THE EVENING IN OCT/XA/99; I WAS LNDG AT THE TRI-CITIES ARPT IN PASCO; WA. CONDITIONS WERE VMC ON A DARK; CLR NIGHT. A FEW MI OUT; I WAS CLRED TO LAND ON RWY 21R FROM A L BASE ENTRY. THIS WAS THE RECOMMENDED RWY FOR THE PREVAILING WINDS. AT THE SAME TIME; AN ACFT Y FLT WAS CLRED TO LAND ON A LONG STRAIGHT-IN APCH TO RWY 12. (I WAS INBOUND FROM THE E; ACFT Y WAS INBOUND FROM THE W.) I COULD SEE THE ACFT Y LIGHTS IN THE DISTANCE AND IN MONITORING ITS PROGRESS IT WAS EVIDENT WE WOULD BE ARRIVING AT THE ARPT VERY CLOSE TO THE SAME TIME. RWY 21R HAS A DISPLACED THRESHOLD WITH LESS THAN 2000 FT FROM THE DISPLACED THRESHOLD TO THE INTXN WITH RWY 12. RWY 21R IS NOT LISTED ON IFR CHARTS FOR LAHSO'S. I MADE A NORMAL LNDG ON RWY 21R AND AFTER I HAD TOUCHED DOWN; THE CTLR INSTRUCTED; 'HOLD SHORT OF RWY 12.' I REPEATED HIS INSTRUCTION AND BRAKED HEAVILY; BUT COULD NOT STOP BEFORE THE INTXN. ADDITIONALLY; THE XING RWY IS VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE AT GND LEVEL ON A DARK NIGHT. AS I CAME TO A STOP; I WAS IN THE INTXN WITH THE ACFT Y ON SHORT FINAL. THE ACFT Y ABORTED THEIR LNDG AND EXECUTED A GAR; CIRCLING TO LAND ON RWY 21R. ASSESSING THE SIT; I IMMEDIATELY ACCELERATED AND CLRED THE INTXN. ACFT Y WOULD HAVE MISSED ME; BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY CLOSE. THE CTLR SAID I SHOULD HAVE TOLD HIM I COULD NOT HOLD SHORT. BUT HE GAVE ME THE HOLD SHORT INSTRUCTION AFTER I HAD LANDED AND MY FIRST INSTINCT AT THAT MOMENT WAS TO STAND ON THE BRAKES. I WAS FORCED TO REACT INSTANTANEOUSLY. HAD I BEEN ADVISED IN ADVANCE TO LAND AND HOLD SHORT; I WOULD HAVE DECLINED AND OFFERED TO DO A 270 DEG TURN BACK TO FINAL. HAD I BEEN ADVISED TO LAND LONG OR TO ROLL OUT EXPEDIENTLY ACROSS THE INTERSECTING RWY 12; THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO PROB. THE CTLR; IN CLRING ME AND THE ACFT Y TO LAND SIMULTANEOUSLY ON INTERSECTING RWYS AND THEN GIVING ME A LAST SECOND INSTRUCTION TO HOLD SHORT; PUT BOTH OF US IN A VERY DANGEROUS SIT. AT NIGHT; WITH ONLY THE LNDG LIGHTS VISIBLE; IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO JUDGE THE EXACT DISTANCE FROM THE ARPT OF ACFT Y. I ASSUMED THE TWR CTLR HAD US SAFELY SEQUENCED; ALTHOUGH IN MONITORING THE ACFT Y PROGRESS I WAS TEMPTED TO SAY I WOULD DELAY MY LNDG UNTIL AFTER ACFT Y. I THOUGHT THAT MIGHT ANGER THE CTLR; BUT OBVIOUSLY I SHOULD HAVE FOLLOWED MY INSTINCT. A NOTE OF HUMOR: MY WIFE WAS ON ACFT Y. WHEN THE CAPT ANNOUNCED THEY WERE GOING AROUND BECAUSE OF AN AIRPLANE ON THE RWY; MY WIFE ANNOUNCED THAT IT WAS PROBABLY ME. I WAS THE FOCUS OF ATTN AND GOOD-NATURED CHIDING AS THE PAX DISEMBARKED!