TLDR - yes, makes sense. I've done it a few times.
I once bought a muffler for my M3 not realizing how ridiculously loud it was until after I got it installed, and within a week I wanted to reinstall the OEM. Before I was able to, I was leaving the Home Depot on Curity on my way to Warden and thought I'd have less chance bumping into a cop by taking a side road instead of O'Connor.
So I ended up using Cranfield not realizing there was a Police garage on it, and with my luck a cop pulled out right behind me just as I passed. I was feathering the throttle to keep the noise down, but then I hit a stop sign and the exhaust droned loudly as I tried to accelerate as slowly as possible. I was just waiting for his lights to come on, but miraculously they didn't. MAde it all the way to Bermondsey when I hit the second stop sign there, again expecting him to pull me over but he didn't. As we turned onto Bermondsey, he changed lanes and ended up ahead of me. I thought about making the first turn to get off Bermindset but figured he should have pulled me over by now if he cared. Well after passing 2 intersections his lane slowed down and he was behind me again and all of the suddent his lights go on. I half though he was pulling someone else over, but it was me.
He was nice enough, telling me ihe liked the car but it was way too loud. I wanted to ask why he didn't pull me over earlier, but held my tongue. As he gave me the ticket, he said if I get it fixed right away I can show the receipt to the court and they will throw it out. I'm pretty sure I took it to early resolution, but at the same time I recall standing in crowd in the hallway while talking to the prosecutor who said he'd take care of it.
I've also done it for a plate sticker in both Toronto and Mississauga, and those two incidents have their own stories which I can only tell in person if you ask me at a BurgeRR or Go Kart night.
