I enjoy doing long-exposure photography for nighttime settings and even under ideal conditions it’s a challenge. You need a tripod to get any sharpness at all, it’s at times difficult to focus and the slightest movement of anything in the scene will lead to blurriness. If one is trying to take a picture in haste, there’s not enough time for setup, even if all the equipment is at hand. I would expect no better than that picture for a hand-held nighttime shot of a non-stationary illuminated object.
However, the photo is too poor to draw any sort of conclusion on what the photographer was attempting to photograph.