Yeah, it seems clear that this was actually a case of "right place at wrong time". Maybe we should add that to our list of idioms. Seems to me it's more common than "wrong place at wrong time".

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside