Pulled over for LED license plate light.

[tomato]

hmmm,

blue lights, or blue-ish...no big deal

failure to appear ? huge deal.

Gotta agree with that. Best to face the music now, then move on with the rest of your life.

UPDATE:

Yeah, I just read the following posts now. Failure to appear can happen to the best of us, but then they issue a bench warrant and you gotta deal with that.

If the guy was in the service, then he can explain his situation. If they issued a bench warrant for failure to appear, then he might have to do community service, pay a fine for the courts fees or what not. But it's best to get this taken care of now, not ignore it.

You know, they probably would have found him when he renews his driver's license or something like that. Probably a blessing in disguise that the cop stopped you.