It makes more sense if one looks at this in a more nefarious angle. { AKA John Doe's view of the world. Any thing or person is out to undermine you. Then again John is John. } A friend of mine likes to believe that nothing happens simply because it happens.

One would also think these others would have figured a way to prevent this from happening again. Or attempted to know the signs of it to warn us before it got rather eventful.