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Daily Flash Show Synopsis Week Of 7/19 MONDAY 7/19 HAITIAN POLICE ARREST SUSPECT IN PRESIDENT KILLING HAITIAN AUTHORITIES HAVE ARRESTED A MAN THEY SAY HELPED ORCHESTRATE THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOVENEL MOISE. MOISE WAS KILLED IN HIS PORT-AU-PRINCE HOME, IN AN ATTACK THAT HAS SHAKEN A COUNTRY ALREADY RATTLED BY RAMPANT VIOLENCE AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY. THE ARRESTED SUSPECT, IDENTIFIED AS 63-YEAR-OLD CHRISTIAN EMMANUEL SANON, ENTERED THE COUNTRY ON A PRIVATE JET IN JUNE. CUBAN ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST THOUSANDS OF CUBANS TOOK TO THE STREETS TO PROTEST A LACK OF FOOD AND MEDICINE AS THE COUNTRY UNDERGOES A GRAVE ECONOMIC CRISIS. DEMONSTRATORS COMPLAINED ABOUT A LACK OF FREEDOM AND THE WORSENING ECONOMIC SITUATION DURING THE RARE PROTESTS. MANY CHANTED FOR "FREEDOM" AND CALLED FOR PRESIDENT MIGUEL DÍAZ-CANEL TO STEP DOWN. HEMP-LICH MANEUVER SAVES DRIVER A PANICKED OHIO MAN SWALLOWED A BAG OF WEED DURING A TRAFFIC STOP -- BUT THEN CHOKED ON IT AND THE STATE TROOPER HAD TO SAVE HIS LIFE. DASHCAM VIDEO RELEASED BY THE OHIO STATE PATROL SHOWS THE TROOPER PULLING OVER A WHITE SEDAN AND APPROACHING THE DRIVER'S SIDE WINDOW. THE OFFICER CAN BE HEARD ASKING THE MAN CAN YOU BREATHE AS THE SHIRTLESS SUSPECT EXITS THE VEHICLE. THE TWO THEN WALK TO A SAFE AREA BEHIND THE CAR, ALLOWING THE TROOPER TO PERFORM THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER TO DISLODGE THE BAGGIE. SECONDS LATER, A BAG FLIES OUT OF THE MAN'S MOUTH. WHO CUT THE CHEESE!? YOU'VE ALL HEARD THE SAYING WHO CUT THE CHEESE, WELL LOOK NO FURTHER: IT'S RITZ CRACKERS. THE COMPANY TOOK TO TIKTOK AND SHOCKED CONSUMERS EVERYWHERE BY SHOWING THEM WHAT THE INFAMOUS RITZ RIDGES ARE ACTUALLY MEANT FOR: TO CUT CHEESE. THE SCALLOPED EDGES ARE NOT FOR AESTHETIC REASONS, ACCORDING TO THE VIDEO THAT DEPICTS SOMEONE ROLLING THE RIDGED CRACKER OVER A SLICE OF CHEESE TO CUT IT IN HALF. VALERIE BERTINELLI EMOTIONAL WEIGHT VIDEO VALERIE BERTINELLI POSTED A HEARTBREAKING VIDEO RESPONDING TO TROLLS WHO CRITICIZED HER WEIGHT. THE 61-YEAR-OLD FOOD NETWORK HOST OPENED UP ABOUT HER MISTAKE OF READING THE COMMENTS ON SOME OF HER RECIPES ONLINE, WHERE SHE SAW PEOPLE POINTED OUT THAT SHE NEEDED TO LOSE WEIGHT. JULIANNE MOORE SLAMS AGING GRACEFULLY JULIANNE MOORE IS OFTEN TOLD SHE'S "AGING GRACEFULLY" -- AND SHE'S HAD ENOUGH. 60-YEAR-OLD MOORE ASKS IF THERE IS AN UNGRACEFUL WAY TO AGE? SHE ANSWERED HER OWN QUESTION SAYING NO ONE HAS AN OPTION ABOUT AGING, SO IT'S NOT A POSITIVE OR A NEGATIVE THING, IT JUST IS." TUESDAY 7/20 FAIRGOERS STOP RIDE FROM TIPPING OVER VIDEO SHOWS THE TERRIFYING MOMENT A CARNIVAL RIDE IN MICHIGAN SPUN OUT OF CONTROL. THE MAGIC CARPET RIDE AT THE 95TH ANNUAL NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL IN TRAVERSE CITY BEGAN SWAYING WILDLY, WITH ABOUT 10 PASSENGERS HANGING ON FOR DEAR LIFE WHILE THEY SWIRLED DOZENS OF FEET IN THE AIR. AS THE RIDE APPEARED TO BEGIN TO COME OFF ITS FOUNDATION AND TIP BACKWARD, ABOUT A DOZEN FAIRGOERS RUSHED OVER TO GRAB THE FENCING AROUND THE BASE OF THE RIDE TO USE THEIR WEIGHT TO KEEP IT FROM FALLING OVER. MAN PINNED UNDER ATV SURVIVED ON BEER A WYOMING RANCHER WAS PINNED UNDER AN ATV FOR TWO DAYS AFTER A ROLLOVER CRASH -- AND HE SURVIVED THE ORDEAL BY DRINKING BOTTLED WATER AND BEER. 53-YEAR-OLD FRANK REYNOLDS WAS ROUNDING UP LIVESTOCK ON A NEIGHBOR'S PASTURE WHEN HIS VEHICLE TIPPED OVER ON TOP OF HIM, DISLOCATING HIS SHOULDER AND BREAKING HIS RIBS. REYNOLDS SAID HE HONKED THE ATV'S HORN UNTIL THE BATTERY DIED, BUT NO ONE WAS IN EARSHOT IN THE REMOTE AREA OUTSIDE GILLETTE. THE BADLY BRUISED RANCHER WAS ABLE TO ACCESS WATER AND KEYSTONE LIGHT FROM HIS COOLER, UNTIL CONCERNED FRIENDS AND FAMILY ORGANIZED A SEARCH FOR HIM AND FOUND HIM A DAY LATER. TIKTOKER ALLEGED TRAVEL HACK A TIKTOK VIDEO WENT VIRAL OF A WOMAN SNEAKING AN EXTRA BAG ONTO AN AIRPLANE IN THIS HILARIOUS HACK. TIKTOK USER MINI-ADVENTURES POSTED A VIDEO OF HERSELF HIDING A DRAWSTRING BAG UNDER HER SWEATSHIRT TO FAKE A PREGNANT BELLY IN ORDER TO AVOID PAYING A FEE FOR TOO MANY CARRY-ONS. USING THE POPULAR NOBODY'S GONNA KNOW AUDIO, SHE WROTE ON THE VIDEO, "WHEN YOU GET A $44 FLIGHT BUT CAN ONLY BRING A BACKPACK." HISTORY MAKING SPELLING BEE WINNER A 14-YEAR-OLD WAS CROWNED THE WINNER OF THE 2021 SCRIPPS NATIONAL SPELLING BEE. ZAY-EE-LAH AVANT-GARD, WHO IS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WINNER IN THE BEE'S 96-YEAR HISTORY, ENDED THE COMPETITION WITH THE WORD "MUH-REE-YAH." GIGANTIC DIAMOND SELLS IN CRYPTOCURRENCY A FLAWLESS 101-POINT-38-CARAT DIAMOND WAS SOLD AT AUCTION FOR MORE THAN $12-POINT-2 MILLION IN CRYPTOCURRENCY, MAKING IT THE MOST EXPENSIVE PIECE OF JEWELRY EVER PEDDLED THROUGH CRYPTO. THE MASSIVE DIAMOND, CALLED "THE KEY 10138," WAS SOLD IN HONG KONG TO AN UNIDENTIFIED PRIVATE COLLECTOR. THE GEM IS ONE OF JUST 10 DIAMONDS OF MORE THAN 100 CARATS EVER TO COME TO AUCTION. WENDY WILLIAMS SLAMMED FOR HATEFUL SEGMENT THE SELF-PROCLAIMED QUEEN OF MEDIA HAS TWITTER IN A TIZZY OVER COMMENTS SHE MADE ABOUT TIKTOK STAR MATIMA "SWAVY" MILLER, WHO DIED OF A FATAL GUNSHOT WOUND. WEB WATCHDOGS ARE BARKING MAD AFTER WILLIAMS USED THE 19-YEAR-OLD SOCIAL MEDIA SENSATION'S PASSING TO COAX LAUGHTER FROM HER AUDIENCE. THE CONTROVERSIAL TALK SHOW HOST TOOK AMPLE TIME DURING HER DAILY HOT TOPICS SEGMENT TO POINT OUT, "I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THIS PERSON IS ... NEITHER DOES ONE PERSON IN THIS BUILDING," BEFORE PROFESSING SHOCK THAT SWAVY HAD MORE SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWERS THAN SHE DOES. THEN YOU COULD HEAR THE AUDIENCE GASP WHEN SHE SAID WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HIM. MAN RECEIVES JOE JONAS REPLICA HANDS A FLORIDA MAN RECEIVED TWO BLUE JOE JONAS HANDS IN THE MAIL AND IS LOOKING FOR SOME ANSWERS. JOE JONAS, KNOWN AS ONE OF THE JONAS BROTHERS, HAD PARTNERED WITH THE TRAVEL BOOKING COMPANY EXPEDIA TO GIVE AWAY BLUE PROMOTIONAL 3-D-PRINTED REPLICAS OF HIS HAND WITH HIS SIGNATURE IN SILVER. EXPEDIA'S HELPING HAND CAMPAIGN WAS LAUNCHED TO HELP REDUCE THE STRESS AND UNCERTAINTY THAT TRAVELERS FEEL WHEN BOOKING A TRIP. BUT, 56-YEAR-OLD SEAN O'FARRELL FROM FLORIDA, RECEIVED ONE OF THE BLUE HANDS IN THE MAIL. WEDNESDAY 7/21 WOMAN DUCT TAPED TO AIRPLANE SEAT AN APPARENTLY UNHINGED WOMAN WAS DUCT-TAPED TO AN AIRPLANE SEAT AFTER SHE ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED THE FLIGHT CREW AND TRIED TO OPEN THE DOOR OF THE AIRCRAFT IN MID-FLIGHT. VIDEO SHOWS THE GRAY-HAIRED WOMAN WITH SILVER DUCT TAPE OVER HER MOUTH, AND HER ARMS AND BODY SEEMINGLY TAPED TO THE SEAT. COP DELIVERS FOOD AFTER DRIVER ARRESTED A POLICE OFFICER IN ARKANSAS COMPLETED A DOORDASH DELIVERY AFTER THE ORIGINAL DRIVER WAS ARRESTED. BODYCAM VIDEO SHARED BY THE JONESBORO POLICE DEPARTMENT SHOWS AN OFFICER WALKING UP TO A HOME AND KNOCKING ON THE DOOR. AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN ANSWERED THE DOOR AND THE OFFICER IS HEARD ASKING IF SOMEONE NAMED "SHERRY" WAS AT THE RESIDENCE. THE OFFICER TOLD THE WOMAN THAT SHE DID NOT NEED TO GET UP, HOWEVER, HE DID INFORM HER THAT HER FOOD DELIVERY DRIVER HAD BEEN ARRESTED AND HE WAS JUST COMPLETING THE DELIVERY. TEETH JEWELRY A NEW STYLE OF MACABRE JEWELRY INCORPORATES THE TEETH OF DEAD LOVED ONES. JACQUI WILLIAMS OWNS THE AUSTRALIAN COMPANY GRAVE METALLUM JEWELRY, WHICH SELLS HANDCRAFTED PIECES THAT INTEGRATE THE REMAINS OF THE DEAD. WILLIAMS ALSO MIXES HAIR AND ASHES INTO HER JEWELRY LINE, WHICH INCLUDES COMMEMORATIVE NECKLACES, BRACELETS AND RINGS. FALSE LASHES SEIZED AT AIRPORT THREE THOUSAND PAIRS OF FALSE EYELASHES HAVE BEEN SEIZED BY U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION AGENTS AFTER OFFICIALS DETERMINED THEY WERE ILLEGALLY IMPORTED FROM CHINA TO NEW ORLEANS. THE FOUR BOXES OF LONG LASHES SEIZED WERE DESTINED FOR A LOCAL BEAUTY SUPPLY STORE. THEY HADN'T BEEN APPROVED BY THE FEDERAL FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION AND WEREN'T LABELED WITH THE DISTRIBUTOR'S NAME OR THE MANUFACTURER'S NAME. BILL COSBY BANNED FROM COMEDY CELLAR BILL COSBY ISN'T WELCOME AT ONE LEGENDARY BIG APPLE COMEDY CLUB, AND THAT'S NO JOKE. THE OWNER OF THE COMEDY CELLAR IN GREENWICH VILLAGE, WHICH HAS HOSTED STARS INCLUDING JERRY SEINFELD, ROBIN WILLIAMS AND CHRIS ROCK, WON'T ALLOW THE DISGRACED COMIC TO PERFORM ON THE HEELS OF HIS PRISON RELEASE. THE 83-YEAR-OLD FALLEN FUNNYMAN REPORTEDLY PLANS TO DO A STAND-UP TOUR NOW THAT HIS SEXUAL-ASSAULT CONVICTION HAS BEEN TOSSED AND HE WAS FREED FROM PRISON LAST MONTH. FORMER NCIS STAR WANTED FOR KIDNAPPING FORMER 'NCIS' STAR ZOE MCLELLAN IS WANTED FOR KIDNAPPING. ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS, THE 46-YEAR-OLD FORMER NCIS STAR HAS RUN OFF WITH THE CHILD SHE SHARES WITH THE FATHER, AND THERE IS AN ACTIVE WARRANT FOR HER ARREST FOR KIDNAPPING. THE WARRANT IS OUT OF L.A. COUNTY AND WAS ISSUED AS FAR BACK AS MAY. IT INCLUDES A HOST OF SERIOUS CHARGES THAT NOT ONLY INCLUDE KIDNAPPING, BUT ALSO CHILD CUSTODY DEPRIVATION AND CHILD STEALING. THURSDAY 7/22 PARACHUTER PLUNGES THROUGH ROOF A PARACHUTIST FROM CAMP ROBERTS TORPEDOED THROUGH THE ROOF OF A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOME AND INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE HOUSE. THE MAN, WHO WAS REPORTEDLY A BRITISH SOLDIER IN THE MIDST OF A TRAINING EXERCISE, DEALT WITH A CHUTE THAT DIDN'T FULLY OPEN BEFORE HE PLUNGED THROUGH THE HOUSE. TESLA RODENT PROBLEM ELON MUSK MAY HAVE A RAT PROBLEM. FANS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN BILLIONAIRE'S ELECTRIC CARS SAY RATS, MICE AND RODENTS ARE CHOMPING DOWN ON THEIR TESLAS.