The circumstances are not pleasant, but he above photo is taken by someone and shows a dropped pair of shoes—unmatched—that were looted from a New York City SoHo store during the looting that's been occurring to protest the death of George Floyd while being arrested by Minneapolis police last week.
The photo clearly shows, unmatched, one left, and then another left shoe.
If you've ever watched the 1954 movie 'On the Waterfront', you can get a sense of what it was like on the docks unloading a ship. Gangs of men descended into a ship's hold, stacked the merchandise on pallets that were hoisted out of the hold and onto the pier, where they were again loaded onto trucks.
The amount of human intervention in this process lead to a great deal of 'shrinkage' (read theft) when something of high resale value was being unloaded. Stolen good that were resold were usually said to have "fallen off the back of a truck" when it was questioned if the items were legally obtained.
Having last spent my working life detecting health insurance fraud, I often found myself recounting the tale I read of the Italian shoe manufacturer who was so fed up with seeing his shipments shrink in quantity on finally getting to the intended recipient, that he created a shipment of left shoes only and shipped them. Two weeks later he shipped the right ones to be matched up and sold, hopefully achieving the intended shipped quantity.
Different circumstances, but somewhere, someone has got the left shoes of what look like a designer style, and someone else has the right shoes. Perhaps wherever looters meet, they'll create two pairs of designer shoes.
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