SPOILER: Random Plot Encounters

These are true events reported in the UK news that can be used in paranorm rpgs;

• A US fighter plane cuts through a cable car wire in Italy. The car falls killing all 30 passengers. The pilot was stunt flying illegally.
• A hurricane rips through Selsey a seaside town at night, doing great damage, though nobody is seriously hurt.
• Repeated winter storms, the worst for a decade, destroy power lines in Scotland and Wales, leaving small communities isolated and freezing.
• A member of royalty is killed in a car crash in Paris, escaping paparazzi.
• An arsonist causes a fire in the Channel Tunnel. The train stops in the tunnel, passengers are nearly suffocated. the Heat of the fire is so intense, it destroys the concrete lining in the tunnel.
• The IRA plant very large bombs in London,one in suitcases under Chelsea bridge, another in a trailer in Docklands. Previously a van loaded with explosives is abandoned at the base of Canary Wharf.
• A huge exhibition dome is being constructed in Greenwich.
• A train crash in Southall kills and injures passengers.
• International balloonists are competing to fly around the world, including passing over hostile territories.
• Mardi Gras bomber has grudge against NatWest bank and now Sainsburys supermarket
• Aryan Nation preparing anthrax and plague bombs against NY
• Drug cartel tries to buy Russian sub & crew for smuggling into America
• Vicar stages stunt kidnap & mock execution with SAS man in front of Boy Scout troop to emphasis today's sermon, SAS man breaks in with knife and gun, takes Vicar outside, 2 shots to the head
• Pedophile goes on shooting rampage in infants school, kills 16 children & teacher, using several automatic pistols (Dunblane)
• Lunatic attacks infants school picnic with machete, teacher defends children despite chopped arm
• Russian MIG flew across Europe without a pilot, crashes into a house in Belgium
• Courier carrying foreign currency does a runner with £1m
• Repo Man - car repossession
• Blackpool, soccer riot, looting
• Vandalism of railway, concrete left on tracks derailed train onto platform
• Bus trapped under low bridge, person trapped in upper deck
• Marchioness sinks in Thames, 50 dead (disco boat struck by dredger at night, sinks in minutes)
• IRA bomb in Deal barracks, 20lb bomb kills 10 bandsmen (musicians)
• Robber murders policeman at petrol station, shoots himself in a vicarage, got gun from gun club
• Sonic binoculars used to fixed races, unseated rider, revelations at cocaine trial
• Aluminium Sulphate put into water supply by accident (S W Water), thousands made ill, ulcers, memory loss
• Clapham rail crash, 3 trains wrecked
• Purley train crash - 2 trains collide, 1 derailed
• Man robs building societies with a cucumber hidden in a bag as a gun
• Berlin Wall opens (Eastern Bloc secrets)
• Navy jet hits flats in Atlanta
• Jewel thief rapes victim, Mediterranean thief breaks into rich houses, steals gold, credit cards, attacked man & wife
• Rottweiler dogs kill children, Akita Japanese dog 10st (140lbs) "uncontrollable"
• Man kills himself with bomb tied to chest, used to be a shot firer in coal mine, had several bombs at home
• Piper Alpha, huge oil rig in North Sea blew up, catastrophic explosions
• Oil tankers collide, oil slicks burn
• road petrol tankers collide and explode
• Week of heavy fog, constant motorway pile ups
• Boxing promoter shot outside event by hooded gunman, his champ is prosecuted and acquitted
• Badder Meinhof blow up W German financier with bomb on bicycle, armour plated limo destroyed
• Medellin drug cartel wages war in Bolivia
• US Army tries to capture General Noriega with heavy rock
• Woman steals baby from hospital (a regular occurrence)
• Man fights Beefeaters in Tower Of London
• Genuine Air Car developed
• Massive stamp fraud, stamps collected for charity, washed off phosphor & resold, worth millions
• Rioting outside council meetings setting poll tax
• Poll tax demo turns to riot in Trafalgar Square and looting in West End
• Riot in Strangeways encourages copycat riots in other prisons
• Fires in Danish ferry, 170 die of fumes
• Fires started on Irish ferries by football supporters
• Child crushed to death by roll of newsprint
• IRA bomb Carlton Club in St James, club for Tories
• IRA attack No 10 with mortar bombs, fall in garden during Cabinet meeting
• IRA attack Heathrow with automatic mortar bombs, devices not discovered for days
• Police forensic labs fire bombed to destroy evidence