Detective Grant investigated a break-in at a jewelry store. The owner insisted the thief smashed the front glass window from the outside to steal the diamonds. Grant inspected the glass shards scattered across the sidewalk and immediately arrested the owner for insurance fraud. What gave the owner away?
All the glass shards were inside the store.
If a window is smashed from the outside, the vast majority of glass shards fall inward onto the floor, not outward onto the sidewalk.
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