I gave it some thought, went through a couple things with this new found power, and decided that I will wait until the next time it happens to confirm that that is the issue. In testing the threefinger doubletap (derpderp) seemed to be correct, but I have never noticed the menu that comes up before. Also with the zoom on, I was able to move around the screen a bit whereas before the screen just locks in place which results in me not being able to pull the power off slider far enough or not be able to see it at all, which then was leading to hardware reset. I had tried a bunch of different tap techniques when I first encountered this, but can't recall if three finger double tap was one if them. The next time this takes me by surprise I will be prepared and if it is just zooming and exiting the menu and I don't have to hardware rest my phone I'll get that last 0.1 to /u/stooth64 asap.