Serendipitious

Serendipitious: adjective. Describing something which occurred or happened by chance and is worth pitying. This may include such unfortunate things as a family with no money discovering a litter of kittens on their door step for them to take care of, or more frivolous things such as seeing someone find a rather large cockroach in their soup and then burning their hand on a hot plate as they retract in shock and bump into a waiter carrying a hot plate by their chair at that very moment.