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…

[Huw @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Ironic?

[Brian Jones @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

I guess brown couldn't deliver. Should have used FedEx.

Brian.

[Camron Johnson @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

shittles

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[AJ @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Friggin' unbeleievable? (ooops, too many words).

AJ

[Casey @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Ironic just doesn't seem to cut it.

[Norm @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

That's KEENE, not keane.

"What can brown do for you?"

[The Truth @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

how bout Scrumptrulescent?

[Liam @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Fucked

[TheZodiac @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

PORKED.

[David @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

lamentably misfortunate

[Jerry Curl @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

One word... FedEx.

[Anonymous Coward @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

I believe the word would be recursive.

The man was stuck in the hospital because the scan machine was broken.
The scan machine was broken because the necessary parts were missing.
The necessary parts were missing because the man supposed deliver the parts couldn't be there.
The man couldn't be there because the man was stuck in the hospital.
The man was stuck in the hospital because...

[Nay @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Oh the IRONING is strong with this one

[barney @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

catch-22

[Rod Scher @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

There's already a perfectly fine word for this. It's "irony."

[Big Dog @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Owned.

[Brian @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

If I may quote from Alanis ...

"It's like meeting the man of your dreams, then meeting his beautiful wife."

Don't you think?

[jb @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

murphy's law?

[Zeek @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

typical

[dejitaru @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

FUBAR would do that trick

[David @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Urban Legend

[BJ Clark @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

I dated a girl from Keene once, even went there. True story.


Oh, and the word is "irony".

[matthew @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

[i] If only there were some word to describe situations like these�[/i]

#17, I was pleased to discover that you beat me to it. Amazing what having a slight grasp on the English language can do for you.

[Jeff @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

To quote Bill Shatner in Airplane 2:

I guess irony can be pretty ironic at times.

[UH2L @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

What can't Brown do for Brown?

[Nigel Pond @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Sod's Law

[English Teacher @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

God, I can't believe you losers couldn't tell that he was making a joke about how people overuse and misuse the word "irony" all the time.

[angryyoda @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

This is awesome! If you're going to get hurt, make the news!

[TIMMY!!!!!!!! @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Seriously, people. Is there really only one person above (see # 29) that realizes that the author was being clever??? I guess that type of thing is lost on too many tech geeks. Book Smarts vs Street Smarts.... the Street Smarts' win every time.

[Anonymous Coward @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

14>

What you are thinking about is a catch-22, or chicken-and-egg scenario. Recursion is more of a nesting kind of effect, so its not a very appropriate term.

31> Too bad your post is neither book nor street smart, but just plain flame bait. Good try!

[Dark_T_Zeratul @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

That is THE definition of irony right there.

[Wayne Chiang @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

shipping of important medical equipment should have be monitored more carefully. Ideally, The ambulance that picked up the UPS driver should have also picked up that crucial piece of brain scan machine parts. The UPS tracking system should inform the hospital as soon as shipping delay is expected. Also, the fact that the hospital do no have any back-up parts to fix the brain scan, suggests that somewhere nearby lawyers are salivating over this case.

[Phil @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

The word 'deadlocked' would seem to fit (rather too well).

[MaxSMoke @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

I don't care what any Egghead English major has to say. If "Phat" can be cool, and "What's Up" is as good as "Hi", then Irony is Irony. If we all use the word that way, then that's it's meaning. What's Ironic is that the people that are suppose to know the most about English seem to be woefully misinformed. Perhaps we need to kick all of the English majors in the ass and force them to get REAL jobs. Then they can do something else other then nit pick our language.

[MojoFilter @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

Aha. All of you nerds are so smart. And you also have lives.

[Marian @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

They could ship him overnight using FedEx to another hospital.

[D @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

catch 22?

[acidreflux @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

isn't this kind of like, uh, ionic? Don't you think?

[jill @ Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM]

I wonder if there was room in the ambulance for the parts.