If you dont want your enemies to track your moves

"They start here. He gets off a bus... walks down to the beach... and... into the ocean? Where did he go?

Those... those poor toes would be so squished. :(

What the...

Can... can I have them

They have things like this but to make it look like animal tracks. There was also a serial killer who did something similar but rather than backwards it was a different show size, so cops were looking for someone with a drastically different sized foot

you'd have to walk backwards for it to work. Your toes will push deeper into anything that leaves an imprint.