[Quilla]

Looks like a glove holding a pipe or something in the foreground (bottom right).

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Looks like a glove holding a pipe or something in the foreground (bottom right).

It is the cable being used to hoist him aboard a helicopter and the gloved hand of one of the operators. A copter would also account for the high angle of the picture .... assuming this isn't a fake.

[sarasota]

The better to kick a$$ with.