This guy who uses dating apps to score free dinner is your new worst enemy

[NelsonG]

Step aside, breadcrumbers. Move to the left, ghosters. There’s a new kind of shitty match in town and his name is Dine-and-Dash.

Just when you thought you’d encountered all the different types of dating app disasters, a new one comes along. There’s a Los Angeles man who keeps inviting women to dinner via dating app and then sticking them with the check. 

He’s like a much less fun version of Homeless Heidi from High Maintenance, and he appears mainly to have met his dates on Bumble. 

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His M.O., according to CBS LA, is to invite an unsuspecting woman to dinner and immediately order a hearty meal. (In one case he went for “A glass of pinot, a Caesar salad with a side of shrimp, a steak and a baked potato.”) Then he chows down and gets up to “take a call.” And — surprise! — he disappears, leaving his bewildered date to pay. Read more...

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