A jewel thief claimed he spent the entire night of the heist at a drive-in movie theater watching a midnight screening in his car. To prove it, he described every scene of the film in detail. The detective arrested him for perjury before the movie even finished loading. Why?
It was a drive-in theater
Drive-in theaters only operate in the dark, and a midnight screening in winter or summer doesn't matter—wait, the flaw is that drive-in movies cannot be watched during the day, but he claimed he watched it at night. The actual trick: a drive-in movie requires you to be parked facing the screen, but he described the plot from the perspective of sitting inside a closed garage, or more simply, drive-in movies don't have 'midnight screenings' because they must start at dusk when it gets dark.
About this riddle
Detective riddles are tiny mysteries. Look for the detail in the story that does not fit; it is usually the clue that solves the case.
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