I just killed a Chicken and the whole town attacked me, doesn't that seem a little excessive? I could understand a fine or a slap on the rist... but wtf Bethesda? I get brutally torn to pieces by the townspeople if i kill a chicken?

The [censored] up thing is, it was night and no one was outside to see me. So I walk in the inn, and they all attack me like they witnessed it...

Well i guess the bad crime system is bad like always.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law, even in Skyrim. You're just lucky that the Zenimax lawyers aren't knocking on your front door right now.

SPEW !!! There went my coffee all over my monitor, lol. Sounds like the voice of experience, lol.

I think the crime system may be cracked. Stole some of that Honnigbrew Mead and when I walked into Whiterun it was gone out of my inventory as if the guards took it because they knew it was stolen?

I did this same. Killed a chicken in the night went on a quest and when I returned, everyone attacked me. So can I get out of it by paying some fine? Or will they forget?

In another thread it has been said that after waiting three days the agression level will be reduced ...

I also killed a chicken but it was during combat with hired thugs and none went hostile.