cruel coincidence

[nickel]

Cruel coincidence befalls UPS driver

So the other day a UPS driver in New Hampshire was on his way to the Cheshire Medical Center in Keene to deliver some much-needed parts for a piece of medical equipment when he got into a crash. He suffered a head injury and was taken by ambulance to the very same hospital he was headed to, but they weren’t able to do any of the tests they needed because the brain scan machine was broken—and the parts needed to fix it were sitting in his wrecked truck on the highway. If only there were some word to describe situations like these…

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000443024450/

http://www.keenesentinel.com/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=37&ArticleID=48806

[blueindian]

If only there were some word to describe situations like these…



irony, perhaps?

[ialsohaveadream]

Irony is a good one, but I'd go with "f***ing s**tty".

[BrewMaster]

Instead of sending the driver to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, someone was sent to get the parts out of the truck, they were installed, and the machine was put to work, police said.

it's a good thing someone was thinking. hopefully that UPS driver is going to be ok now.

[bachviet]

That sucks to be him and hopefully he will be okay.

[welfareloser]

"series of unfortunate events" ... "what were the odds?"

can't come up with anything more succinct, but i'm sure it exists... "irony" is correct, but it jsut doesn't seem to do it jsutice... it's like a layer-cake of irony.

[ShawnLee]

"Jacked up" works better than irony, methinks.

[BigJon]

Yeah...that's jacked up....

[molecularfire]

I wonder if the hospital still had to pay UPS for delivery of the part... I mean it wasn't delivered and the hospital had to send someone to pick it up...