Tragicomedy

As if we didn't have enough to worry about, what with certain streets we mustn't walk alone after dark, hurricanes doing their best "Shiva, destroyer of worlds" impression, and Wall Street going somewhat pear-shaped...
...Add rogue barbell weights to the list.
The gist of the article, in case the link shuffles off this mortal coil:

A 45-pound wheel-shaped weight being carried up Cornell University's Libe Slope during a drill by a member of the wrestling team got loose, rolled down the hill and hit a woman, knocking her down a flight of steps and causing serious injuries.

Now, this is going to be one of the few times in my life when knowing the person to whom this happened is actually going to make things funnier. No, seriously.
The article fails to capture exactly how unlikely this was. For those of you who don't know Libe Slope, it is a great green expanse, approximately a quarter mile long, below which sits the gothic dormitories that I always wanted to live in when I was little. Libe Slope is also the location of Slope Day, which you can Google yourself and which has no bearing on the accident.
So the 45lb round barbell weight is dropped and begins to roll downhill, as round things tend to do on hills. Not so strange. But the weight managed to roll clear to the bottom without hitting trees or students, cross the road between two moving cars, jump a curb, and then make a quick right-left-right dodge around the flagpole, through a gap in the stone wall behind the flagpole, and then make a flying leap onto the back of the person who happened to be at the top of the stairs at the time.
Unbelievable.
My first reaction (and likely hers) was a firm "WTF?", followed by skepticism, followed by laughter. Er, I doubt she managed the laughter part.
She is supposed to recover fully, though, so she'll probably have a chuckle over her mugging by a York barbell weight soon enough.