So I receive the quest to find the Golden Claw for the shop owner, and on the way out I randomly kill a chicken just for shiznits and giggles. Unfortunately, that put a bounty on my head of 100 gold, or whatever the currency is. I'm a bit confused, but F it. So I go and complete the quest, and when I get back to town...

EVERYONE IS TRYING TO KILL ME

Including the nice family who took me in and fed me, gave me supplies and allowed me to use their forge to craft my new sword which I am now forced to brutally kill them with. I can't talk to them at all, and if I don't fight back they kill me in short order. Even once they "give up" after taking a bunch of damage, they come right back in and I'm forced to finish them. With each kill my bounty goes up another thousand, until I'm nearly at 1 mil. Finally, everyone is dead and I decide to go to the tavern in hopes of drowning my sorrows only to find out, hey! There are more people who want to kill me! One of them is some chick in a blue dress who WILL NOT DIE because she just keeps healing herself.

After 3 hours of game time I'm forced to start over from the beginning, because I never saved.

Moral of the story: Leave the fuggin chickens ALONE!!!

Don't [censored] with the chickens man...

What would you do if a strange man walked into your garden and started stabbing the cat?

Chicken issues, next time roast it and eat it, food cannot be thrown away on those hard civil war time.

Seriously, Bethesda has found this issue more than half a year ago and haven t fix it ? Or is it just a troll ?

And what Povuholo sayd.

Save often.

Kill the whole town.

PROBLEM SOLVED! 8D

This did make me laugh, and I can totally empathise with you as I did exactly the same thing, thankfully I had an autosave from just before!

Beth's just teaching you a lesson.
You must be sneaky about it if you are to choke the chicken.

What, you turned autosave off or something?

I DID THE SAME THING- is there nobody I can pay the bounty to?! AND SERIOUSLY WHY IS THE BOUNTY ON A CHICKEN 55 GOLD, BETHESDA. NOT FUNNY. STOP LAUGHING, I MEAN IT. THIS ISN'T FUNNY.

I was thinking of doing the same thing.

I can't get Fable out of my mind because in Fable there is a sport of chicken kicking where you try for the longest kick.

I can't see this being a Skyrim sport.

Hasn't anyone tried to yield? Like in Oblivion?

Block and A (on the 360). Might work!

How can you disable autosave... I didn't see that anywhere?

You've been awarded the title of Chicken kicker!.. Now come here while I kick the crap out of you!

I'm on the ps3 but I get the gist - try to block&talk while they try to beat the *$%^ out of me Trying now!

If you wait a couple of days before going back to the village, you might find people have somewhat forgotten about your cruel act.

Wasn`t there a post about the Sacred chickens of Skyrim on the developers blog? Something to do with their belief that the dragons evolved into birds (ala dinosaurs) ergo they became chickens?

Or did I dream that?

Whatever, having a blast with this game - worth the wait.

Zelda has taught us to never mess with chickens.

First chicken I saw, I thought:
"OH Yeah baby, there is only me and you now, and you little pathetic creature you cannot defend yourself!!! And I am peckish Hero with an hunger for good roasted chicken, or tikka chicken masala, so let me snap your neck you little spy..." crack -> splat *all the town it is upset* me: "what? for a chicken? it wasn't me!!! no no, I didn't kill it I swear... oh frak" and I realoaded before have killed the chicken.
It was funny and strange why the people would care so much. So I tried in the middle of the night, sneaking and trying to chop it while no one was around, and no... I got the bounty as well. Come on!!! I want to kill all the chickens of the realm give me a patch that I can do that during no one is around!!! or at least to get the chicken and killing it later far away from a town!

I want to join the Dark Brootherhood of chickens

A grown man, and a stranger at that, who kills harmless animals for kicks, who wantonly destroys a village's food sources, is someone you probably don't want near your family.

Hmmm....but is it completely, totally unforgivable? Can one not show remorse and once again accepted by society?

Maybe it was someone's chicken.

I'm so glad I read this post. I was walking past a chicken after doing that same quest and thought about killing it, sooo glad I didn't.

Anytime I get in a what if situation, I always save first.

I also do that when I find myself in a "why not" scenario...