Dennis Quaid was out to dinner last night with his wife and one of her girlfriends at Phillippe restaurant, when he narrowly escaped getting arrested for a DUI.

The valet pulled Dennis’s car up as the trio exited the restaurant, and Dennis was visibly tipsy as he made his way to the driver’s seat of the vehicle.

Right after he got into his car, a police car pulls up, and without even getting out of the vehicle, the cop tells Dennis to “get out of the car.”  He says it repeatedly until Dennis and the ladies exit the car and go back inside to call a driver.

Pretty nice of the police if you ask me.  If they had waited one second longer they could’ve had Dennis nailed.

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