"And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses... a walking engine of glittering metal
... articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the
riot of the thunder. A flash, and it came out vividly... Can you imagine a milking-stool tilted and bowled violently
along the ground?... But instead of a milking-stool imagine it a great body of machinery on a tripod stand." (H.G.Wells, "The War of the Worlds". 1897.)

Don't worry - it's only a water-tower! Or is it? ;-)