A coincidental coincidence

Finding coincidences a rather interesting topic, I once ventured in a discussion forum the idea that there might just be more to them than the random interaction of probabilities. After all, there is no empirical evidence that there isn't, so we can only speculate. Of course many or most people discount the 'meaningful' hypothesis and there I was having an exchange of ideas with one of them and... he comes back admitting to being taken aback by the fact that, as he was reading my post, somebody came up on telly in the room talking about exactly the same thing. Can't remember anymore the particular line of thought put to him but it was pretty much along the lines blaring out of his TV set, I'm putting it to him that coincidences could perhaps mean something, he thinks there is no chance of that and next thing he is, in his own words, 'stopped in his tracks' by this particular one. It wasn't a live discussion, he could have read it any other time. Personally, I just don't know whether that episode was purely fortuitous or not.