It's relatively early yet to be handing this one out but strapping a gas can into a baby safety seat and just throwing your half naked baby in the back seat of your car has to make you a contender.

A Colorado mom shocked her local police department last week when they found she'd bumped her baby out of his car seat so she could strap a gas can in his place.

"This could be one of the most extreme incidents we've ever seen," Aurora Police spokesman Frank Fania told the Denver Post.

In the image the diaper-clad child can be seen sitting in the backseat of his mother's car next to a car seat, in which a red gas can has been carefully nestled.

"Unbelievable! This heartbreaking photo was taken by an officer with the Aurora Police Department during Click It or Ticket enforcement last week," CDOT wrote with the photo. "Share it to remind everyone that life is precious, so please be responsible and make sure children are properly restrained in the appropriate child safety seat."

The jarring photo was taken on May 30 during a traffic stop when a police officer pulled over a car for making an improper turn and found that no one in the vehicle was wearing a seat belt, the Post reported.

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