Round up: 24th November

This man is very excited to read this weeks weird news round up.

Welcome once again fans to the JC/DC Weird news round up. Happily, this week we appear to have no major deaths to report. Hurrah! So this week we can get straight into the strange news stories from the all over the globe.


Despite the freedom to have an entire weeks news without a single death related story, we instead start with the story of someone mentioned in last weeks round up - Sir Jimmy Saville.


Just over a week ago, Sir Jimmy's funeral was held at Leeds Cathedral, before he was buried in Woodlands Cemetery, Scarborough. At the former DJ and presenter's request, his coffin was buried feet down at a 45 degree angle, facing the waves and beaches of the popular seaside resort.

Round Up: November 13th

Sir Jimmy was just one of many sad passings the last few weeks.

Dear friends, apologies are in order. After months of absence from your lives, JC/DC return, only to go AWOL for a further 4 weeks. This was an unfortunate combination events, including but not limited to: a huge problem in our IT department (read: my computer tried to do the world a huge favour and refuse to let me post anything); a massive lack of man power brought about by an office epidemic (read: I caught an awful cold); the sheer increase in workload from other projects (read: my job that actually pays the bills suddenly required me to do some real work). Hopefully, that is all behind us now and normal service can resume.

Round Up: 16th October

Welcome once again to the Weird News round up. After a week of political scandal and a major governmental resignation, you can rely on JC/DC to deliver you some up to the date news to make you smile instead of frown. So without further hesitation, here is this weeks collection of Weird News!

Seattle Superman, Phoenix Jones, talks to the press.

This week, we start odd journey round the globe in Seattle, where would be superhero 'Phoenix Jones' is in court over accusations that he assaulted 4 people leaving a nightclub. In a scenario echoing the plot line from "The Incredibles", Pheonix Jones supposedly attacked the revellers in an attempt to break up a fight.

"I am just like everybody else. The only difference is that I try to stop crime in my neighbourhood." said the real life superman, who is leader of the Rain City Superhero Movement, and claims his team will be out patrolling Seattle's streets the same night of his court appearance.

Round Up: 9th October

Steve Jobs:  1955-2011

Welcome fans to your weekly round up of stories from the last 7 days. The main story of the week was the sad news of the death of Apple Co-founder and Chairman, Steve Jobs, on Wednesday. It is a testament to Apple's current popularity that people were so aware of who he was and were saddened by his death, something that may not have been true 20 years ago when Apple were struggling and Jobs was at his new company,  NeXT Computer Inc. He will always be remembered as the man who brought the iMac, iPod and iPhone to the world, when he returned to the company in 1996. He should also be remembered for the brilliant work he did helping to turn Pixar into the fantastic film producing studio it is today. Anyway enough with this depressing stuff, here at JC/DC we aim to brighten up your week, rather than darken it like all these "Real" news outlets tend to do. So on to the weird news!