Somehow, it’s news that someone didn’t really get arrested for something, he just almost did. Dennis Quaid was reportedly about to drive his car after a night of drinking in West Hollywood last night, when a cop pulled up alongside him, and asked him to reconsider.

The cop got Dennis to get out of the vehicle with his wife. The paparazzi at the scene added to the show by yelling things like “you don’t want a DUI, you don’t want to end up like Mel Gibson!”

Dennis and the wife took a cab home instead.