You’ve missed a lot this week, and I hope you’re enjoying Chemistry.com‘s Free Communication Weekend too. When you need to have something to talk about this weekend I have the solution for you: the best news stories of the past week. Share to enjoy!

- Octopus eats seagull. Caught on camera by amateur photographer and shared in this video. Bizarre!

- Man impersonates dead mother in scam. Some people will go far for an easy dollar. But this? Manicured nails, lipstick and oxygen mask? Ick! Sorry, no pictures.

- The deeper the tanning salon tan the crazier the mother. In New Jersey this mother is charged with letting her 5 year old girl getting burnt at a tanning salon. BUT you have got to see the pics of this grossly tanned mother! Ick Ick!! Pictures include ugly-mom with light and dark tans. And another reason to avoid that tattoo ink lip liner. Followup: This is tanning mom lashing out after all the todo is made hysterically public.

- You can’t go to college, you’re dead. It’s a hell of a story for your retirement party. Future of high school senior’s plans now on hold or he’s got a helluva reason to bail.

- Kate Upton’s Cat Daddy Dance video. Shake those money-makers!