A jeweler reported a robbery. He claimed a masked thief smashed the display window from the outside at midnight. Detective Sterling examined the shattered glass shards and immediately charged the jeweler with insurance fraud. What did the glass reveal?
The jeweler
When glass is broken from the outside, the majority of the shards fall inward, onto the floor. If the glass had fallen outward onto the sidewalk, it proved the window was smashed from the inside out.
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