Keep it on the DL

"Transaction was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction." - Some web-app

That is the most threatening error message I've ever read. You're probably tempted to come back at me with a fatal error, but those still have a passivity about them. It's one thing to attribute your computer's stuttering failure to some faulty memory register at 0x0198764235... In this case, however, I have been chosen as the deadlock victim.

My transaction didn't fall through the cracks, nor was it mishandled; it was selected, isolated, marked for death.

Skynet, is that you?