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  • The Odd Couple of buddy cops respond to a dine-and-dash incident at a restaurant only to find themselves sucked into a case in which a dirty cop may have murdered an informant against a Mafia kingpin.

    Tonight's TV Hot List: Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 2010

  • It was the last question that had made me favor the dine-and-dash.

    Shift Jennifer Bradbury 2008

  • They'd instituted the no-anonymous-pancakes policy to prevent dine-and-dash, but as with all security measures, what made one party more secure made another less secure.

    Boing Boing: November 26, 2006 - December 2, 2006 Archives 2006

  • It was the last question that had made me favor the dine-and-dash.

    Shift Jennifer Bradbury 2008

  • The hotel heiress pulled a brazen dine-and-dash yesterday after nibbling on a hamburger in Australia, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

    Will the Persecution Never End (1st Paris Hilton Post of 2007!) Bill Crider 2007

  • The hotel heiress pulled a brazen dine-and-dash yesterday after nibbling on a hamburger in Australia, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

    Archive 2006-12-31 Bill Crider 2006

  • I've learned it's best to always listen to the spooky disembodied voice of Frank Oz, which has never steered me wrong the possible exception being an attempted dine-and-dash in a Moses Lake, WA diner.

    Archive 2006-05-01 David Campbell 2006

  • About dine-and-dash situations: there is an episode in "The Virginian" involving an eatery in Omaha.

    jackpot Holly 2005

  • Your ancestors' experience with the dine-and-dash is not unique.

    jackpot Holly 2005

  • Montreal police shoot car after 'dine-and-dash' Montreal police say two diners left this restaurant on Sherbrooke Street East without paying.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

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