This actually looked really pretty -- the branches were wet and there were berries that stood out, shiny and red, against them. But I was walking, and my camera phone blurred the image.
I walk under this telephone pole every day and never noticed that this tree is attacking it. And apparently nobody else has noticed either, because it's supposed to be dangerous for branches to be tangled in wire -- or so I thought.
I used to be slightly grossed out by staples on telephone poles like this, and I'm not sure why, but it doesn't bother me so much anymore to look at them.