What's another way to say "When **** happens"?

For my GCSE drama performance we are showing how a kidnapping can effect different people, in different ways. So the message we want to put across is different methods of coping when thrown into an unknown situation. That's why we don't want to call it taken or kidnapped, but approach it from a different angle. I feel "When **** Happens" is brilliant. But I do not think our Examiner will take to it too fondly. Does anyone know a know a more consciously creative way to say this?