For making ginger eat his parents.
- What?!? He stole 16 dollars and 12 cents from me

Punching one in the face while having a discussion about means of transportation having been abolished, wishing there were options like in the old days. The actual reason leading to the punch being the response of the other person: "lolz Just turnz it off!"

My character was an evil mercenary, but in one of his missions, he went out of control, and killed an innocent nobleman in a raid against a caravan. It was the wrong caravan and soon after the real one came along, this one with alot of imperial soldiers guarding a huge weapon supply wagon. Every other mercenary was killed, but he was sent to a imperial fort in Skyrim for torture for information about who hired him for the job. He never talked and was throwed into a little prison pitt to rot. So this time he is released into a bloody civil war, he does not know who payed him out. But he knows that this time he will fight on the good side, so with this in mind he finds his way to the local tavern. And so starts the histories with him

Surviving for 200 years (way longer than you should) and not leaving space in this mortal realm for someone else.

I basically ended my last characters run in Oblivion by massacring all of Skingrad. Then I knocked Count Indaryn unconscious about twenty or thirty times.
When he got up the thirty-first time, I accepted his bizarre immortality and decided to just have a staring contest with him.
And I never played on from there. So I assume that's how the guards found me, with a 32000+ gold bounty on me, staring intently at Count Indaryn, and him staring back at me.
Makes sense they'd deport me, really, considering the Nerevarine thing, and my involvement with the Emperors death.
( Also, I have rolled the same Altmer with the same name for Morrowind and Oblivion now, so I'm damn well sticking to that saga )

Grave robbing - I'm a necromancer, there is never a question why I am in prison

stealing a fork <_<

:lmao:

After my exellent example of how to ride a horse, all the kids of Tamriel were told not to drink 'n' ride
I was thrown in a cell, had just stopped puking all over the cell and... then something happens that gets me out

Lack of imagination ,so far TES V is reeking of it.

Because I should have urinated someone elses name in the snow in front of the mayors house.

I broke into jail to write a documentary about the harsh conditions.

This.

You ended up in prison for running an illegal gambling operation in New Vegas.
..."They've taken you from the ruined city....Far North, to Skyrim..."

@Eps: Thats so awesome

Love your avatar BTW Adiil

Caught scrawling "Cyrodilles Eunt Domus" on the walls of Fort Frostmoth. Had my balls cut off, to boot.

You've been incarcerated for loitering and posession of a controlled substance.

Little do they know you are, Dovahkiin...DRAGONBORN! Then when they realize that, they're just like, "Let 'em go eh?", because people in Skyrim have Canadian accents.

Apparently necrophilia is as illegal in Skyrim as it is in Morrowind...

Oh, to be back in Cyrodiil, where all I had to worry about was a $500 fine. Less so if it was the first offense.

Oficially?
Tax Evasion

unofficially?
Racketeering
extortion
illegal transport of bootleg liquor from the Morrowind Border
illegal modifications on my horse
prostitution
illegal gambling
murder
homicide
corruption
black-mail
Grand Theft Horse
Grand Larceny
Destruction of Public Property
Assault
Speeding
Invasion of Privacy
Conspiracy
Drunk and Disorderly Conduct
Public urination

my character's name will be "Alvus Caponus" the smooth talking Breton

Public Indecency

I was a bad boy, I needed female nord punishment.

due to my past oblivion/morrowind criminal record ... i think because the main character stole a spoon and was called "a psychopath on the loose" by some random citizen ... doing 10 years for that :/

Its tradition... Actually, I think Daggerfall was the only one where you weren't a prisoner. And at least Arena explained why you were in prison.

you weren't exactly a prisoner in Daggerfall, but you were in a prison like situation. I think they called it went "you find yourself in a terrible predicament" and you started in a cell like room with not immediate way out.

Ahh,
I was caught selling what Nordic officials called "archeological artifacts" and "various restricted alchemical ingredients not produced in a manner consistent with Nordic custom"
I called it "loot" and "various herbaceous and naturally occuring substances for potions"
The officials told me if I gave them a hefty bribe the "circumstances" could be forgotten. However, periodic "favors" and "gifts" would be required to continue the amnesia.
I slapped the biggest, burliest Nordguard on the ass and told him to make me a sandwich, and in jail I went.