Ironic

If you're a lobster, welcome to the seventh ring of hell.  The below is an up close of a lobster vending machine.  If you're a lobster, presumably, there are several man-made contraptions you hope you never see, like wire cages, over-sized pots, and, of course, the lobster vending machine.

As should be evident from the graphic, the lobster vending machine works much like its stuffed toy in arcades counterpart.  Whereas, a clawing attempt to win your sweet a fuzzy bear may cost a few dollars, if your sweet has champagne taste and wants a lobster, a try with the claw will dent you 20 bucks, and that's assuming you catch it.  One would think the water factor complicates things. 

Supremely, if you are among the lobsters awaiting the inevitable, you sigh relief every time some overzealous hotshot comes up with empty claws.  Yours (your claws), of course, are rubber banded.  You are dually precluded from challenging the metal claw or from succumbing and hitching a ride out voluntarily.  A fate worse than death?  Just ask a lobster in a lobster vending machine; they may be practically boiling over with the irony of it all.

Life sometimes can be ironic.
Ironic: --adjective
  containing or exemplifying irony