Photograph evidence that has to be seen to be believed confirmed a friend's apparently wild allegation of their Jeep's accident with a telephone pole in an incidence that violates accepted physics and probability. The picture shows a scenario that seems more like a movie special effect than a real-world accident: a Jeep that has somehow precisely sliced through a solid telephone pole. This leaves the vehicle wedged in a way that questions our knowledge of how such accidents usually happen.
Not only is the way the car crossed the pole odd, but the fact the surrounding infrastructure was mostly undamaged makes this episode especially extraordinary. Although the pole was actually broken in half, most of the telephone lines and surrounding poles stayed in place, therefore reducing the possible disturbance to local communications. Though the same cannot be said of the automobile itself, the friend's survival of such a spectacular catastrophe lends still another level of wonder to the narrative. This occurrence reminds us of the erratic nature of accidents as well as the need of photographic evidence in recording situations that could otherwise call for credibility strain. The photo is one of those times in life when reality seems stranger than fiction and when "you had to be there" simply isn't enough; you need images to show it really happened.
