Non-existent services throw an error when attempting to disable them

When attempting to disable a service that doesn't exist on a machine, Puppet throws an error:

Error: /Stage[main]/module::Disable_cups/Service[cups]: Could not evaluate: Could not find init script or upstart conf file for 'cups'

service {'cups':

  enable => false,

}

It seems to me that there should be a way to suppress this error, as there are cases in which disabled is the goal, but completely missing is also fine. This to me would be more in-line with the Package module behavior, where you can say ensure => absent and it won't throw an error if the package already didn't exist.