Amusing story: A couple years ago, my wife and I were doing a "day trip joyride" around the area in my red Mustang. Because it IS a red Mustang, and is therefore a radar magnet, I normally drive as scrupulously as possible (gas for the car's expensive enough without tickets!
). However, after dark on the way back, we passed a local Sheriff's Office vehicle in the median of the highway, and I could "feel" him "looking" at me. Sure enough, he dove into the road behind me and immediately hit his overheads. A quick glance at the dash confirmed no, I was NOT speeding. Mildly perplexed, I pulled over, hit the dome light, and waited. Sure enough, here he came, looking ... excited and slightly nervous? And now that I'm looking at him, and he can see my face, thoroughly confused? I asked what the issue was, and he said I had a license plate light out (no, I did not, I checked with him there). Now I'm as confused as the cop, because he's not being pushy, in-my-face, or even confident; rather, he's acting and talking like HE wants to get away, and possibly out of embarrassment! He flipped his lights off, we both got back in our vehicles, and left, no papers issued one way or another to document it, and both the cop and I confused as to what had just happened.I figured it out later. At my department's muster a week earlier, we'd been notified of a murder suspect possibly fleeing to Mexico in a new(er) model Mustang, color red. The officer (from a neighboring small and slow county) probably thought he had the catch of his life! Imagine his confusion when, instead of a 6-foot-plus dark-skinned guy, he got a 5 1/2 foot blonde guy and his wife! No wonder he was embarrassed...
I had a good laugh about it, but the license plate light thing is -definitely- fishing. I certainly know I don't need it to run tags at night; my headlights work just fine to illuminate the tag.