Have you ever encountered something so awe inspiring that you had to take a picture of it and share it with all the people in your world, in case they don't believe you when you tell them about the experience after the fact?
Before we had camera phones we were forced to use one of those old fashioned film cameras to document the event, but now we can prove the existence of the double banana by clicking a button and hitting send.
Diply has put together a collection of 20 Awesome Things You Would Never Believe Happened Without Photographic Proof, and lemme tell ya- if you didn't have a camera handy when one of these amazing things happened you'd never forgive yourself for missing the photo op!
Here's the news story about the incident, with an interview with the photographer and multiple photos that confirm it's real:
http://www.wtae.com/news/local/allegheny/deer-gets-basketball-stuck-in-antlers/22376388
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/10/09/deer-with-basketball-stuck-in-horns-spotted-in-bethel-park/
Of course, since you have two Master's degrees you probably know better than both of these stories, and the old couple who saw the whole thing, so my argument is invalid. Maybe you should get a job at Snopes?