So I started a new Skyrim character, my first "pure warrior" character. Most have always been ranged or spell casters. Any way I get to the first town, and I decide to attack the first chicken I see. Now maybe I just forgot, or perhaps in my journeys through all the other Elder Scrolls games I never attacked a chicken before - but I did find it extremely hilarious that smashing a chicken with a 2h mace, warranted the entire village to come attack me as if I had just attacked a guard.

Now I know certain other mechanics have always set this off: getting caught stealing, punching people (weather on purpose or accident). Surly this kind of thing will have to be ignored unless they want the kind of corpse piles gold farmers use to create in Orgrimmar back in WoW.