In Oblivion, if you even think of moving something around like in a shop or residence, even if you DONT put it in your inventory, the guards come-a-runnin with their "Stop right there Criminal Scum!" Even though the feature that lets you pick up and move around things had no real use, it was still a fun little thing they put in the game, but just moving a PAINTBRUSH in someones shop or residence is a crime. I really found it pretty ridiculous how you get accused of stealing when you dont steal anything. Granted this is a game and not real life.Still in real life you dont generally get put in jail just for touching someone elses property even if it is rude. Hell you can run around on dining tables and knock everything off and cause a huge mess and everyone at the table is staring at you, like, "Hail!" "hello there!" or whatever. Yeah it's only a small nitpick, I just hope that in Skyrim, if they keep the feature where you can move things around, it wont actually come with ridiculous consequences like that. They don't make sense lol.

You can fix that with mods on the PC. However even though there was no jail system in Fallout, it wasn't a crime to move people's things. So hopefully Skyrim will be a bit like that.

they did it so people wouldn't hide it in the corner and steal it when teh shop keeper was too far away to catch them, not the best solution tho. I think they should have just stuffed things into cases with hard locks on them. What most vendors in real life would probably do

This is one of the stupidest things in the game. It's a case of the developers not thinking things through. All they really had to do was to open the Barter dialog if you handled store merchandise. "Buy it or put it back down."

Yet you can move things around with impunity using telekinesis. :laugh:

I must say, this is a first for me. I don't think I've ever tried to move anything. The reason to do so never came up. If I wanted it I just stole it.