I can answer this question by narrating an incident told by my father.

A long time back was travelling from Delhi to Bangalore by train. He was in the sleeper class of train with reserved ticket. While the journey was going on peacefully, he was not ready for what was about to happen. These were old times and the trains were slow running taking almost 2 days for such a long haul journey. So, when the train left Nagpur, there were two guys who came in the coach and start behaving rudely with the passengers. After threatening some people they came to my dad’s seat. He was a boy at that time and looked like a soft target. So one of them asked that if he could sit on the seat for a while? Now, he could not afford to say no and also on a humanitarian ground he allowed them to sit there. Then the nightmare started. His space was constantly invaded and gradually taken away from him. These guys were all over the seat. As the night came and everyone had to sleep they occupied the whole seat of my dad and one old uncle who was sitting opposite to him. Now both people with tickets were left with no seat and two people without ticket were sleeping in their seats without even realising that they have done anything wrong. So they decided to lay their bedsheet on th floor and sleep. As the night was moving on my dad picked up 1 shoe of right leg of the person occupying his seat and 1 shoe of left leg of the person occupying seat next to him and threw them out of the window. He slept peacefully afterwards. When the morning came and he woke up with sound of 2 people shouting and fighting each other. They were the ones who occupied the seats. They were fanatically searching for their shoes. The conversation followed

Person1:- yaar how come only 1 shoe is missing, even if the thief would have come he would have taken both shoes.

Person2:- Those were my new shoes and now what will I do with 1 shoe.

Both:- Yaarr we have only completed 1 leg of the journey and we cannot go back like this. Our fathers will kill us for losing the new expensive new shoes and he would not believe that my right and your left is missing.

They themselves threw the remaining 2 shoes out of window as the train reached the destination. They even asked dad “Chhotu have you seen our shoes? If we find out some mischievous deed you have done you will pay for it” And he gave an innocent reply “I am already at you feet Sire, how could I even think of doing anything mischievous.

As the train reached the destination and my dad got down he saw 2 ticket checkers standing at exit and checking tickets. He went to them and showed his ticket and also signalled them about two people without shoes and without ticket. As he moved on towards the exit he saw the ticket checkers grilling both of them and they pleading to let go.

What happened to them he was not concerned so he moved on with a smile as he came out and moved towards Autoricksahw.