Here's my no front plate stories.
Parking lot at A&M when I was a junior. I come back to my front bumper on my tundra all scratched up. my license plate in the bed of the truck, and a note on the windshield in obvious girls handwriting that just says "sorry i hit your truck".
i go to lunch and come back to campus that afternoon and turning at Bizzell St in front of New Main and there's a campus cop at the stopped sign opposite of me. I turn and immediately the lights are on. huffy ass cop walks up, "do you know why i pulled you over? you don't have a front a license plate."
I tell her, "here it is. someone hit my truck in the parking lot this morning. you can see it's broken."
her response, "well it's illegal to drive without a front plate in Texas. you need to get this fixed as soon as possible. here's a warning."
2nd time i had the license ripped off of a different truck. about 2 weeks later, a state trooper pulls me over. same spiel.
they use it as a pretext to pull you over and hope they catch you for something else.