I guess you can't fault this guy for trying.

The police in Longmont, Colorado pulled a truck driver over last Monday because of his creative solution to a busted taillight.

Instead of replacing the light with another red light, he duct taped a bottle of red Gatorade in its place.

The cops wound up not giving him a ticket when he promised to replace the Gatorade with a real light later that day.

Read more at ABC 7 - Denver.

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