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Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't a light out fall in the non-moving violations like expired tags or inspection? Yeah it was ticketable but as evidenced by the OP, the good public relations went a lot further than the potential revenue.

And GigAg, I see what your saying, call it two birds with one stone.

Added in edit: My wife got stopped for no taillights, but she could see the headlights were on. When the cop told her what was up, she had no idea what was wrong to cause the outage, so he offered and followed her home since she was close so she wouldn't get run over. It was a 2002 Prius and what had happened is the headlights were actually turned off by the oil change people (she keeps them on all of the time to prevent this kind of thing) and the safety lights (low beams) were still on. Both the digital speedometer and the monitor were brightly lit. She was simply too tired to notice the accessory lights on the console were off or the headlight symbol wasn't illuminated.

He was a young Flower Mound cop that my wife fully believes was "watching out" for the two beauties she had with her. It's now part of the checklist whenever we have the car serviced to make sure the lights are really on.